Watch Hanley Ramirez’s towering 468-foot homer soar over the Green Monster
"Boy, take cover, the way that one came in!"
The Red Sox weren’t lacking for runs, or home runs, in a 13-5 win over the A’s on Tuesday night at Fenway Park. But no single swing altered the scoreboard more majestically than the one Hanley Ramirez put on a 94-mph fastball by A’s starting pitcher Sean Manaea in the first inning.
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The two-run homer stretched the Red Sox’ lead to 3-0. It would only grow from there.
“I will never in my life hit a ball that far,” Mookie Betts said after the game, via Tim Britton of The Providence Journal.
According to MLB.com’s Statcast, the ball was projected to land 468 feet from home plate. That makes it the second-longest homer of the 2016 season, trailing only a 475-foot blast by Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton.
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