![]() ![]() In the original - slightly larger than the above - Yankee Stadium, this ball might have failed to clear the fence. According to Statcast, Mercedes hit that 113.3-mph missile a whopping 485 feet and off the scoreboard of the White Sox’s Guaranteed Rate Field, a ballpark barely able to contain this moonshot. This season, no one has hit a ball further than Yermín Mercedes did on this nuclear blast into deep left-center field. ![]() While it may be shorter to the poles by a couple of dozen feet, it dwarfs all modern-day parks by about a hundred feet into the deepest part of the parks.Ĭlem’s site includes recreations of every incarnation of every big league ballpark, including this one of Yankee Stadium in 1928: By comparison to the Yankee Stadium of today’s measurements, the original park was absolutely massive. The extremes were somewhat lightened in the subsequent years and Clem’s Baseball has these measurements as a few feet shallower, but not so much as to make a substantive difference for any ball batted by a mere mortal. They measured a mere 280 and 294 down the left and right-field foul lines, respectively, but according to Baseball Almanac, shot out into a 500-foot deep-left field, 487 feet to center, and 429 feet to the wall in deep-right field. When the original Yankee Stadium opened on April 18, 1923, the dimensions were as extreme as one could imagine. The moniker, it seems, had more to do with Ruth’s superstar personage capable of filling seats with posteriors than the ballpark’s performance-enhancing effects on Ruth’s production. However, Yankee Stadium, in its original form, was far less hitter-friendly than the name, “The House that Ruth Built,” might suggest. They gained nine homers apiece for a total of 27 more bombs than they would have had if they’d played at a league-average ballpark. In 2019, Gleyber Torres, Brett Gardner, and DJ LeMahieu accounted for three of the top six batters in the greatest differential between homers and expected homers according to Statcast’s projection systems. Yankee Stadium, as currently constructed, is well known for its home run-inducing effects, especially for hitters capable of driving the ball beyond the shorter-than-most right-field fence. ![]()
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