Avisail hits Rays' AL East champs banner on HR
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There have been a lot of home runs hit in the Majors this season. What's one way to make yours stand out? Well, if you're Avisail Garcia, you launch one so hard and so far that it hits the banner celebrating the Rays' 2008 AL East title team out in left field.
Garcia's solo shot in the seventh inning Saturday at Tropicana Field, which gave the Rays a 1-0 lead against the White Sox, traveled a projected 459 feet, per Statcast.
It's not the first time a banner at Tropicana Field has been hit with a homer. In 2017, Marcell Ozuna -- then with the Marlins -- sent a 468-foot blast off the banner celebrating the 2011 Rays club that captured the AL Wild Card.