Ohtani nearly leaves Dodger Stadium with 473-foot moonshot

1:54 AM UTC

LOS ANGELES -- In just four months with the Dodgers, has already had his fair share of jaw-dropping homers. But he saved his most impressive for his 30th blast of the season in Sunday's 9-6 win.

Red Sox right-hander Kutter Crawford left a 2-1 cutter over the middle of the plate in the fifth inning, and Ohtani made sure to make him pay. As soon as he made contact, there was no doubt it was going to be a homer. The only question was whether the ball would clear Dodger Stadium.

Ohtani just missed hitting it out of the park entirely, but it did completely clear the right-center pavilion, skipping all the way to the center-field plaza. The projected 473-foot blast is the second longest at Dodger Stadium in the Statcast era (since 2015), behind just Giancarlo Stanton’s 475-foot blast that cleared the entire stadium on May 12, 2015.

The Dodgers’ two-way superstar now has seven homers of 450-plus feet this season, the most by any player in the Majors, and three more than any other Dodger in a single season since '15. Ohtani is now the owner of three of the five longest homers at Dodger Stadium in the Statcast era.

Impressively enough, Sunday’s blast wasn’t the longest of the season for Ohtani. That came on June 18 at Coors Field, where he launched a 476-foot homer to straightaway center field.

Ohtani has been even better than advertised in his first season with the Dodgers after signing a historic 10-year, $700 million deal this offseason. He leads the Dodgers in just about every major hitting category and has now hit at least 30 homers in four consecutive seasons.

In a short period of time, the Dodgers have grown accustomed to watching Ohtani hitting moonshots. But as the camera panned to the Dodgers’ dugout, it was clear that it was one of the most impressive homers hit in Dodger Stadium history.

During his in-game interview on ESPN, Clayton Kershaw, who has spent his entire 17-year career with the Dodgers, said he has never seen a ball hit where Ohtani’s ball landed. Most of the longest homers at Dodger Stadium have come from right-handers. There have been a few Ohtani homers this season that have landed in uncharted territory.