Yahoo Sports' Launch Pad - Franchy's first goes 474 feet!
Yahoo Sports recaps the three longest home runs from the week of May 17th utilizing statcast data.
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- As he drives one deep to right field. This ball way out of here. Kyle Tucker, a monster shot to right. And it's 3-1 Astros.
- He was trying to get up on top of Mount Davis out there.
- Home run number 10 on the year for Tuck.
- And this one hit high in the air, deep right field. You can forget it. It's gone. What a start for the Reds. And a 3-run bomb for Tyler Naquin.
- Yeah, this ball just left out over the plate. The left-handed hitters, because of their swing path, typically have success against sinker ball pitchers. You could see that pitch-- right-handed sinker ball pitchers. You could see that pitch just leak out over the plate. And, again, the swing path from left-handers is more of an uppercut swing.
- Franchy Cordero will swing and hit a high fly ball. That one is gonna be jacked way out of here. An absolute shot by Franchy. And that's how you break up a shutout.
- Franchy went bridge, didn't he? We were waiting for that, and he got it all.
- Yeah.
- Everybody--
- [INAUDIBLE] down.
- --stopped.
- Down in the zone too.
- It's the fifth-longest home run in Major League Baseball this year. Estimated distance is 474 feet.
