467 feet later, Kyle Schwarber's latest prodigious homer landed over the Shea Bridge at Citi Field
The Cubs began their game with the Mets on Wednesday night in style, with
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That homer was launched a Statcast-projected 467 feet to right field, carrying over the Shea Bridge as if it wasn't even there. Here's a photo of Citi Field with the Shea Bridge area designated, so you get an idea of how far this was:
The numbers backed the dinger's ridiculousness, too:
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— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 15, 2017
But then again, the word "ridiculous" is nothing new when describing the prodigious Budweiser sign-busting power of Schwarber, who is now the owner of the Cubs' two longest homers of the season to date. The other one was a 470-foot moonshot hit on May 23 that landed on Sheffield Avenue outside Wrigley Field.
As for where Wednesday's home run ranks in ballpark history, Schwarber's bridge-clearing dinger is the second-longest hit at Citi Field in the Statcast era -- trailing only
Does hitting a homer like that feel any different as a hitter than a regular-distance homer? As Schwarber told MLB.com's Carrie Muskat, it's ... different:
"It's just barrel -- you know you hit the barrel. When you hit barrel, you don't feel anything. You see the ball flight."
In the end, though, all those Cubs homers weren't enough to avoid losing to the Mets, 9-4.