Yahoo Sports' Launch Pad - Biggest Phillies blasts from the statcast era
Yahoo Sports compiles the three longest and most impressive home runs for the Philadelphia Phillies since 2015.
Video Transcript
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- Out to center field. Blackmon going back toward the wall. It is gone! Look out, hawk.
Straightaway center field. Cameron Rupp, a 2-run shot, and the Phillies are on top 6 to 2. It's a four for four day for Cameron Rupp.
- That's what we're talking about getting greedy.
- Out to center field. Wow.
- Uh oh.
- That was loud, and it is--
- Uh oh.
- --gone!
- Oh!
- Onto [INAUDIBLE]
- Yes, sir.
- Over the second wall. It went over Bernie's head in center field. What a shot. That could be one of the longest home runs here in Citizens Bank Park.
- Wow.
- And the Phillies take a 1-0 lead.
- Wow.
- 466 is the estimated distance.
- Wow.
- I just kept waiting for it to come down. It never did.
- Yeah.
- Boop.
- That ball is crushed deep to left field. Forget about it. Onto the concourse. A 3-run home run for Maikel Franco.
We may have a new leader for distance in the clubhouse. Cameron Rupp re-established the longest home run earlier at 465. That's right, you can bask in the glory if you're a Philly fan after that home run. 471 for Maikel Franco.
