Giancarlo Stanton’s ability to hit baseballs extremely hard and extremely far makes him one of the more unique players in the league. On Saturday night, the designated hitter showed off his unreal strength with a home run over the left field wall in Baltimore.
The shot, which left the bat at 116.3 MPH and went 436 feet, was able to clear the relatively new left field wall in Camden Yards, which has become one of the toughest walls to clear in the league and earned the nickname “The Great Wall of Baltimore.” Not only did it give the Yankees a 4-1 lead, the home run elicited some fascinating reactions.
Giancarlo Stanton: 1
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) April 9, 2023
Wall: 0 pic.twitter.com/gssxXhiPmH
After the game, manager Aaron Boone had one word to describe Stanton’s ability to hit balls like this.
“Weirdo,” he said, via Gary Phillips of the New York Daily News. “The Great Wall of Baltimore tried to hold him in, but it doesn’t hold Big G. That thing just kept taking off on a clothesline.”
In case you haven’t noticed, I’m weird. I’m a weirdo. I don’t fit in, and I don’t want to fit in. pic.twitter.com/EOdWMkxeKZ
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) April 9, 2023
Stanton has a knack for hitting line-drive home runs, so what he did vs. the Orioles isn’t necessarily new. Still, whenever he does hit a home run on a line like that, it is always impressive.
