Miguel Sano is just 24, and he’s having a really good year for the Twins, slashing .270/.372/.537 with 18 home runs entering today’s doubleheader in Kansas City.
And he’s only improved on those power numbers. Having already gone deep in the first contest, he set his sights on this Jason Hammel two-seamer, which moved right back over the heart of the plate.
You might have felt the resulting blast in your homes across the country:
.@SanoMiguel at the plate?
Take out the measuring tape. #Crushed pic.twitter.com/eDNd6hv5z8
— MLB (@MLB) July 2, 2017
That’s a fantastic pitcher reaction from Jason Hammel, too, the underutilized “lazy kid in gym class stretching” pose.
Ironically, the measuring tape might be necessary, because Statcast struggled to come up with the info for the blast:
Miguel Sano might've broken Statcast with his mammoth homer. There is no data right now on the three-run blast.
— Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) July 2, 2017
Still no data as of time of writing, although earlier in the day in Kansas City, there was another monster shot, via Kansas City’s Brandon Moss:
Brandon Moss with the disappearing ball trick! #Crushed pic.twitter.com/yXa15y31X9
— MLB (@MLB) July 1, 2017
Over all three outfield walls! Statcast did have a distance measurement for that one:
https://twitter.com/statcast/status/881254897970278400
If Statcast ever does recover from the damage done to it by Moss and Sano today in Kansas City, it’ll likely spit out a hefty figure.
