Ohtani hits longest home run of his MLB career (493 feet) to reach 30 this season
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani hit a 493-foot dwelling run Friday evening — the longest of his main league profession — to change into the ninth participant to succeed in 30 homers in a season by July 1.
The Los Angeles Angels‘ two-way celebrity drove a slider from Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Tommy Henry to proper discipline within the sixth inning to get the Angels inside 5-1. It was the longest dwelling run within the majors this yr.
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Ohtani turned the primary participant since Baltimore’s Chris Davis in 2013 to hit 30 homers by the tip of June. Davis had 31.
Babe Ruth, Ken Griffey Jr. and Sammy Sosa every did it twice. The others are Mark McGwire, Barry Bonds, Luis Gonzalez and Albert Pujols. Bonds had 39 by July 1 in 2001 en path to setting the single-season report with 73.
Ohtani has hit 15 dwelling runs in June. Besides being an Angels report for probably the most in any month, he tied Babe Ruth (1930 Yankees), Bob Johnson (1934 A’s) and Roger Maris (1961 Yankees) for the AL mark in June.
Ohtani’s three longest homers have come at Angel Stadium. His earlier greatest was a 470-foot drive off Kansas City’s Kris Bubic in 2001. It was additionally Ohtani’s fifth lengthy ball this week.
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