NEW YORK -- Ronald Acuña Jr. astonished his teammates and rewarded one well-positioned fan with the monstrous home run he hit in the Braves' 9-8 win in Game 1 of their doubleheader vs. the Mets at Citi Field on Monday afternoon.

Acuña’s second-inning solo homer off John Curtiss sailed into the third deck, high above the left-center-field wall. Television cameras briefly lost the ball in flight, then showed it being held by a man who had caught it in the upper deck.

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Acuña’s home run had a Statcast-projected 114.5 mph exit velocity and went a projected 448 ft.  It was the sixth-hardest-hit homer and the 14th-longest homer of the Braves outfielder’s career. 

In the history of Citi Field, only three others have homered into the third deck: Yoenis Cespedes (2016), Aaron Judge ('17) and Pete Alonso ('19 and '21).