Longest home run?

WahooSam309 · 04-30-2019, 10:25 AM

What's the longest home run you've seen? Is there a hard-coded upper limit?

SxSnts9 · 04-30-2019, 10:31 AM

I've seen some over 500 ft. I doubt there is a hard-coded limit, but you rarely see anything too insane. Remember...anything over like 450 ft is just an absolute bomb. Only a handful of guys will consistently clear that number IRL.

NoOne · 04-30-2019, 03:50 PM

it's ony asthetic and completely controlled by dimensions of your stadium.

go make "left/center/right" to be 600' and you'll have 600+ foot home runs.

this isn't a physics based game. it's just probabilities.

to compare apples to apples i'd look at what % beyond the fence a ball is said to fly.

so a 500' over a 400' center wall is probably similar to a 750' home run over a 600' wall. most likely relative to lf/cf/rf ? or it may be a simple length + X based on rng of hit... more info needed to know minutiae. exit velo that is given will help, if all tied to the same math... still need to know launch angle to use that properly. with those two factors you can know how far it flew (i.e. a vector and you know gravity's effect - 9.8m/s^2)... then account for any wind.

Tazilon · 05-03-2019, 05:08 PM

Ive seen 448 in game but i dont really check the numbers on most them. IRL the longest ive seen was 614. Back in the day when Dave Kingman was either striking out or hitting homers for the Mets they played Chicago at Wrigley one afternoon and he just absolutely destroyed a pitch. It went out of the park and overly Waverly St and landed on some ladies front porch bouncing all around the porch as it lost energy. WOR had it all on film. Ball came to a rest and a few seconds later a little old lady with grey hair opened the door looked around for whomever she apparently thought was knocking on her door shook her head at the mystery and went back inside. They measured it at 614 feet

Gruber_Tagged_Him · 05-03-2019, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Tazilon

Ive seen 448 in game but i dont really check the numbers on most them. IRL the longest ive seen was 614. Back in the day when Dave Kingman was either striking out or hitting homers for the Mets they played Chicago at Wrigley one afternoon and he just absolutely destroyed a pitch. It went out of the park and overly Waverly St and landed on some ladies front porch bouncing all around the porch as it lost energy. WOR had it all on film. Ball came to a rest and a few seconds later a little old lady with grey hair opened the door looked around for whomever she apparently thought was knocking on her door shook her head at the mystery and went back inside. They measured it at 614 feet

So that's about 140 MPH exit velocity? (Just doing the calculus in my head...) Also, I hope somebody gave the LOL the ball and advised her that it was worth a billion $$...

Pffttt... I hit a driver today 305 yards. And it was gently snowing (not kidding, no way the course should have been open, but anyway... That's like 950 feet (or something around there, all I know is a yard is kinda the same size as a metre...). Baseball players are wimps.

(I suck at golf but can do what most Canadian ex-hockey players can do, hit stuff really hard as a leftie. Then 3-putt.)

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SxSnts9 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2016 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 154	I've seen some over 500 ft. I doubt there is a hard-coded limit, but you rarely see anything too insane. Remember...anything over like 450 ft is just an absolute bomb. Only a handful of guys will consistently clear that number IRL. __________________ "They let me down real easy when they cut me. I showed up at the stadium and was told that visitors aren't allowed in the clubhouse." - Bob Uecker

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NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	it's ony asthetic and completely controlled by dimensions of your stadium. go make "left/center/right" to be 600' and you'll have 600+ foot home runs. this isn't a physics based game. it's just probabilities. to compare apples to apples i'd look at what % beyond the fence a ball is said to fly. so a 500' over a 400' center wall is probably similar to a 750' home run over a 600' wall. most likely relative to lf/cf/rf ? or it may be a simple length + X based on rng of hit... more info needed to know minutiae. exit velo that is given will help, if all tied to the same math... still need to know launch angle to use that properly. with those two factors you can know how far it flew (i.e. a vector and you know gravity's effect - 9.8m/s^2)... then account for any wind. Last edited by NoOne; 04-30-2019 at 03:52 PM.

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Tazilon Minors (Double A) Join Date: Apr 2017 Location: Mesquite, TX Posts: 116	Ive seen 448 in game but i dont really check the numbers on most them. IRL the longest ive seen was 614. Back in the day when Dave Kingman was either striking out or hitting homers for the Mets they played Chicago at Wrigley one afternoon and he just absolutely destroyed a pitch. It went out of the park and overly Waverly St and landed on some ladies front porch bouncing all around the porch as it lost energy. WOR had it all on film. Ball came to a rest and a few seconds later a little old lady with grey hair opened the door looked around for whomever she apparently thought was knocking on her door shook her head at the mystery and went back inside. They measured it at 614 feet Last edited by Tazilon; 05-03-2019 at 05:14 PM.