Yahoo Sports' Launch Pad - Biggest Blasts of 2020
Yahoo Sports runs down the the Top 3 home runs from the 2020 season and playoffs utilizing statcast data
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- And Giancarlo will lead it up. Ball is just tattooed.
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- Stanton hits it to the back of that tarp in left field and this is a 1-run game. And John Smoltz, I mean, you just can't hit a ball any harder. Hit against that tarp, might of broken a seat out there if the tarp wasn't on it.
- Well, him and Mr. Judge are dominating the Statcast [? era ?] on exit velocity and distance. They basically have a stronghold.
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- Luis Robert, he is not a finished product. He drills one to left field and tosses the bat aside. My goodness, where will it land? Way up and out of here. A titanic home run from the rookie Luis Robert. The White Sox have a 1-0 lead. 487 feet.
- [CHUCKLES] Oh, my gosh, Dave Fleming, he crushed this ball. This is a four-seamer. Chucks his bat over to the White Sox side, exclamation point.
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- Swing and a high fly ball that's walloped deep left. Ronald Acuña JR. Bat flip, it's bombs away. 1-0, a lead off home run.
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We told you, seeing almost five pitches for plate appearance. He saw five and the fifth one left the park in a big hurry.
- Yeah, I mean, he's just trying to make the other pitcher work a little bit before he takes him deep now, so they can get in on the count a little bit. Hey, man, that was loud. That ball was loud. That was smoked.
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