Shohei Ohtani, who has only been with the Dodgers for four months, has already hit his share of spectacular home runs. However, he reserved his best for the Sunday series finale, when he scored his 30th bomb of the year.
Ohtani made sure to make Red Sox right-hander Kutter Crawford pay for a 2-1 cutter that he left over the middle of the plate in the fifth inning. It was obvious that Ohtani was going to be a homer as soon as he made contact. The ball was going to clear Dodger Stadium; that was the only uncertainty.
Ohtani just missed hitting a home run, but the ball cleared the right-center pavilion and skipped the center-field plaza altogether. With Giancarlo Stanton’s 475-foot bomb that cleared the entire stadium on May 12, 2015, coming in second, the projected 473-foot blast is the largest at Dodger Stadium in the Statcast era (since 2015).
With seven home runs of 450 feet or more this season, the Dodgers’ two-way superstar leads all Major League players and has more than any other Dodger in a single season since 2015. Three of the five farthest home runs in Dodger Stadium history during the Statcast era are currently owned by Ohtani.
After agreeing to a historic 10-year, $700 million contract this offseason, Ohtani has performed even better than anticipated in his debut season with the Dodgers. Now that he has hit at least 30 home runs in four straight seasons, he leads the Dodgers in almost every major hitting metric.
It didn’t take long for the Dodgers to get used to seeing Ohtani hit moonshots. It was evident, though, as the camera cut to the Dodgers’ dugout, that this was one of the most spectacular home runs in Dodger Stadium history.