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Leandro Cedeño hit a home run measured at 527 feet (161 m) in the minor leagues. [21] Giancarlo Stanton recorded the hardest hit batted ball, with a ground ball with a recorded 123.9-mile-per-hour (199.4 km/h) exit velocity, [22] and the then longest distance for a home run, at 504 feet (154 m), measured by Statcast. [23]
The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie recorded the hardest-hit ball in the seven years that Major League Baseball has measured exit velocity, lashing a single that came off the bat at 122.4 mph in a 14-2 ...
The fastest recorded serve is by Sam Groth, at 163.7 mph (263.4 km/h) at a Challenger event. His second fastest record speed, and his fastest at an ATP event, was 147 mph at Wimbledon. [1] [2] Similarly, John Isner once hit a serve recorded at 157.0 mph (253.0 km/h) in the first round of the 2016 Davis Cup.
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" [1] by LIFE. Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed.
That was the hardest-hit ball anywhere in Major League Baseball so far this season. Then, after a 116.3 mph double in the third, Cruz did it again. ... Cruz owns three of those, including a record ...
It also continued De La Cruz's early assault on the Reds record book. Per Statcast, the 458-foot home run left his bat traveling 114.8 mph. ... It was the hardest-hit ball in Triple A or MLB this ...
Batters found the combination of extreme velocity and lack of control intimidating. Oriole Paul Blair stated that "He threw the hardest I ever saw. He was the wildest I ever saw". [12] [13] During a typical season in 1960, while pitching in the California League, Dalkowski struck out 262 batters and walked 262 in 170 innings. [3]
It was Stanton’s third hardest-hit home run since Statcast tracking began in 2015. He launched a 121.7 mph drive off the bat against Texas in August 2018 — the big league record in the ...