Ryon Healy crushed a 480-foot rainmaker that asserted its place in Statcast lore

In Ryon Healy, the A's have a young slugging third baseman capable of doing some pretty powerful things with the bat. He demonstrated that early on in Thursday's 14-5 win over the Royals, launching an Edinson Vólquez offering a long, long way into the Kauffman Stadium evening:

Over the fountains. That ball was 20 feet shy of being a 500-foot moonshot, by the way:

That's good for the longest homer of the Statcast™ era by a member of the A's (ahead of Brett Lawrie's 470' launch last August), and then there's also this:

It's also the kind of blast that elicits excited reactions from teammates:

And managers:

As for where it ranks in 2016 in terms of projected distance:

That's a pretty good poke.
Oakland dropped 14 runs on Thursday, which serves as a testament to hitting the ball very, very hard on a consistent basis: