511 foot minor league home run

[rockycola]

We just had a thread talking about longest home runs. I can't remember if it was here or on the ST but I didn't find it on a quick look.

Yesterday, Sacramento Giant's outfielder Johnathan Mackensey Williamson supposedly smacked one 511 feet.

By Jordan Wolf / MiLB.com | May 7, 2019 2:42 AM

The outfield fence of Raley Field couldn't contain Triple-A Sacramento on Monday. And for Mac Williamson, neither could the ballpark as a whole.

The Giants outfielder blasted three long balls and drove in a season-high five runs in the River Cats' 12-6 win over the Aces, including a 511-foot moon shot that plated the go-ahead run and capped back-to-back-to-back shots in the fifth inning. It was the seventh three-homer game in Sacramento history.

He's already got 13 MLB dingers. He's gotta have some holes, weaknesses in his game. He was DFA's in March but no team made a claim. He's not a wildass pitcher so I'm sure JD just glossed over him. Too bad.

April 4, 2019 San Francisco Giants sent RF Mac Williamson outright to Sacramento River Cats.
March 28, 2019 San Francisco Giants designated RF Mac Williamson for assignment.

After his big game,

By Jeff Todd | May 7, 2019 at 9:13am CDT

The Giants are slated to bring outfielder Mac Williamson back onto the MLB roster, according to Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area. He’ll join the club in Colorado today after launching three long balls last night in Sacramento.
Williamson was bumped from the 40-man roster late in spring as the Giants reorganized their outfield. He landed at Triple-A after clearing waivers.

It was hard to argue with that decision at the time. Williamson had struggled last year after dealing with concussion issues and had never really run with his chances in the big leagues. At 28 years of age and out of options, Williamson ran out of time.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2019/05/ ... amson.html
https://www.milb.com/milb/news/mac-will ... -306905402

I was just wistfully thinking he plays left field.........

[DavidGee24]

In the video that's a hell of a blast, and it definitely cleared the area about 100 feet behind the left field fence which is 330 down the line. However, nowhere is it stated how the distance was authenticated. It was nighttime and even though there's a small picnic area out there, beyond that it's dark and probably nobody knows where it landed. Now, if they actually showed where the ball landed, then you can say okay, that sounds reasonably authentic. But with no data other than just "something someone said" (and the accompanying articles do say that this is according to the Rivercats organization and isn't presented as fact), it sounds like the usual sensationalism. Maybe he hit it 511 feet, and maybe he hit it 461 feet, most likely closer to the latter.

[DavidGee24]

Here's a really good one, Joey Meyer's "582"-footer: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/t/joey- ... vp-BBB4QU7

It's about 350 feet to the wall at that point and if you look at an overhead of Mile High Stadium it's about 100 feet to the second deck (the seats gradually elevate so it's not as far as it would appear from a press box camera) and the second deck is 60-70 feet above ground. Meyer might have a claim to 500 feet on that shot, but you can see how even home runs on video get badly exaggerated.