Giancarlo Stanton’s 13th-inning home run in the Yankees’ 3-0 win over the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ont. on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 (6/6/18) was the hardest one hit this season.
TORONTO — Everyone in the Yankees dugout still was giddy about Aaron Judge breaking a 13th inning scoreless tie with a two-run homer when the most amazing part of a 3-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays went down.
Two batters after Judge put the Yankees in the lead, Giancarlo Stanton had teammates dumbfounded watching him homer to left on an 0-1 changeup from righty Joe Biagini that looked like it was shot out of a cannon.
“I think that’s maybe the hardest ball I’ve ever seen hit,” manager Aaron Boone said.
By Statcast calculations, this 416-foot blast had a 119.3 mph exit velocity that made it the hardest-hit homer of the season and second hardest ball hit this year behind only a 119.9 mph single to right center that Judge hit off Los Angeles Angels righty Garrett Richards on May 27 at Yankee Stadium.
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Since Statcast started keeping exit velocities in 2015, Stanton’s homer was tied for the 12th hardest hit on a list in which he and Judge have 11 of the top 13.
Stanton didn’t do a post-game interview with reporters. Maybe he wasn’t impressed.
Judge was.
“Oh yeah, but I’m not surprised by that,” Judge said. “He’s been taking a lot of good swings and whenever he connects like that, you know it’s going to be hit hard.
“That got out in a hurry. We didn’t really have time to celebrate (my homer). By the time he swung … that thing was already gone. It was impressive.”
Boone said that he was “taken back a little bit” by how hard Stanton hit the ball.
“I turned to (infield coordinator Carlos Mendoza and said, ‘If you hit that same ball in your prime, it’s bouncing in front of the left fielder,'” Boone said. “It was killed.”
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