Giancarlo Stanton might be the most-feared slugger in Major League Baseball today.
The Miami Marlins' 25-year-old right fielder might have even outdone himself on Tuesday night, absolutely crushing a cutter from starter Mike Bolsinger in a 467-foot home run that left Dodger Stadium. Stanton's bat speed was clocked in at 115 mph, according to ESPN Stats & Information. See the massive shot here.
Although Stanton bashing a homer isn't anything new, the fact that the long ball exited Dodger Stadium is rather unique. In the history of the stadium, only three other players have ever cleared the bleachers there. They are Hall of Famer Willie Stargell, who did it twice, Mike Piazza and current Dodgers hitting coach Mark McGwire. Pretty amazing for sure.
What's scary is that Stanton's homer was just his sixth-longest of his career, having topped out with a 494-foot shot back in August 2012. Even though the run was the lone run in the Marlins' 11-1 loss to the Dodgers, the Dodgers were still awestruck over Stanton's homer.
"That's the hardest ball I've ever seen hit against me ... well, I take that back. His last ball he hit against me was probably the hardest ball," Bolsinger told ESPN of Stanton's homer and then sixth-inning single. "You've got to just look back and go, 'That's awesome,' and just go on with the game."
The second Stanton connected with Bolsinger's cutter for that towering home run, Dodgers left fielder Scott Van Slyke didn't even bother to move.
"Where was I going to go, try and catch it?" he joked.
Stanton is going to be hitting memorable homers for years to come.
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