Giancarlo Stanton makes history with hardest hit home run ever recorded.

Giancarlo Stanton is exactly the person you would think of to hit a baseball over 120 miles per hour. The leaderboard for hardest hit base hits is almost exclusively Stanton. The one exception is Giancarlo’s teammate, Aaron Judge who’s 120 mph hit is the only home run on the list. However, on Thursday night the list got a facelift after Stanton’s mammoth home run.

Giancarlo Stanton is a big man with a big swing. Comparatively,  the pitcher for the Texas Rangers at the time was not.  Ariel Jurado is a recent Double-A call up who has surprised some with his decent pitching outings. In reality, he has not faced the Bronx Bombers lineup. From the start of the game, it was clear the Yankees outmatched the young pitcher. It was only a matter of time before someone got a hold of one. In the fifth inning, every ball hit in the air for the Yankees left the ballpark. That is not a good percentage for the young Ranger pitcher.

On a 1-1 pitch, Jurado tries to throw his sinker ball that got Stanton to ground into a double play his last at-bat. The thing is, Stanton is a former MVP who knows how to adjust in the middle of the game. The rookie pitcher was given a very rude awakening to this revelation. Giancarlo knows the pitch is coming swats the ball 450 feet in less than 5 seconds. After everyone caught their breath and comprehended what happened, the TV crew asks for the StatCast numbers. According to StatCast, Stanton hit that ball 121.7-mph off the bat. That speed is almost incomprehensible for the average fan. The pitcher threw the ball 91-mph in one direction and the batter hit it 30-mph harder in the other! How does that happen? The first step is to be the strongest man in the sport. After that, no one really knows.

Stanton’s home run is now the fastest and hardest hit baseball ever recorded passing his teammate Judge. It will be exciting to watch these two for years to come in the pinstripes. Of course, we cannot forget our condolences to that baseball. May we remember it during our whiffle ball home run derbies in the backyard. Amen.

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