Chicago Cubs | Top 10 | Longest Home Runs (According To StatCast) 

Wow, you must be fun at parties

Dave Kingman should have a word or two with StatCast...

Thanks. I was expecting Kingman, Sosa, etc.

tonygrooove and Tyrone Hill

The Glennallen Hill bomb was one of the hardest hit balls I've ever seen

You can see Kingmans bounce as it came down. Score was 21-18 or something so wond was howling out. Hill Homer was longer

Sorry guys you are both way off! Kingman's blast in '79 not only did not hit the third house, as it is clearly stated later in the full video,but caromed off of the porch roof of the fourth house and is not only much farther than Hill's incredible blast onto the roof just across the street,( 510 feet ) but also was smashed way out into the power alley in super deep left 695 feet away from home plate! Kingman also hit one in the summer of '76 as a Met that may have travelled even farther! And both of those are NOT the furthest one's The Mighty Kong hit in his incredible career! ( 8 into the parking lot at Shea, 1 THROUGH the roof at Olympic Stadium, and 1 in Oakland off Yankees legend Ron Guidry that was hit so damn far they actually lost sight of the ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

​@@adamstevens1204the winds that day were only 8mph... Look it up...

@@johnkolakowski4253 When Kingman was with the Yankees, I remember watching a game on TV when he hit a ball out of the stadium, but just foul. Rizzuto did about a dozen holy cows and said it was the farthest ball he had ever seen hit. And he saw plenty of Mantle's HRs.

​@@johnkolakowski4253The cool part about Kong's blast was the resident in the building. He was watching the game on WGN at Wrigley & as the ball was coming down, he made a bee line for the ball, running down the steps out of his residence to try & retrieve the baseball.

That shot by Hill is still the hardest hit ball I've ever seen

Or Sosa's that landed on the next house up on Kenmore past Kingman's shot?

Kingman’s went about 535’ 3rd house back LF

Fuck star cast

Actually, Kingman's shot was 4 houses down (including the corner house with the WGN letters), and 5 houses if you include the empty lot between 2 of the houses. Just a ridiculous home run. And according to many sources, he hit one a couple years before as a member of the Mets that went even further down that same street.

@@dirliedirl Yes, Kingman's HR was beyond Waveland and down Kenmore ...

1979

@Shawn Young this is based off statcast so they didn't show those

@@dirliedirl ... That might be the HR referenced.... Comment said 77'.... Kingman did not join Cubs until 1978. He played with Mets / Padres (in NL) in 77' plus 2 AL teams.

This aged well

I remember that Arrieta HR in Arizona. It was 2015 I believe. If I remember correctly, many of the HR trackers put that one at around 440 ft or so. Pretty cool!

@@jarodsparacio851 It was 2016

That shot by Hill is still the hardest hit ball I've ever seen.

Those were 3 of the 4 longest home runs I saw in my 40 years of covering the Cubs for WBBM Radio and WLS-TV. The other was by Roberto Clemente. It went over the TV camera platform, just left of the scoreboard, and onto Waveland Avenue.

@Michael bell I doubt any exists. But it remains etched in my memory, along with some of Clemente's sliding catches into the visitor's bullpen.

Absolutely.

Yea the Kingman one went 500+ I think

Roids will do that

@@sebastiankrembuszewski8435 Dave Kingman was never on steroids. I have no idea about Mr. Hill but I have never heard anyone accuse him of being on them. You need to keep your mouth closed when you cannot back up such idiotic claims. Stay safe.

@@ChairmanMeow1oth did!!

Yup

Sammy s was further

Kong was short changed by 45 ft. (40 ft. for the Vacant lot & a few feet into the next lot "on the front lawn under the porch where it would have landed if unobstructed by the porch") as it hit the 4th house (NOT THE 3RD HOUSE) 5 lots up Kenmore - 575 ft. A bit higher, it would have hit that guy. Some speculated that his 76 shot off Tom Detorre may have went further. Love to see footage of that one. Lou's call was incorrect Quote "beyond the white house" which "IS" the 3 house Lou so it hit the 4th house on the 5th lot up Kenmore. I've studied this footage a ton.

@@sammyholdem2492 The blast Sammy hit in game 2 of the 2003 NLCS came closer to hitting the CF scoreboard than any homer hit since Babe Ruth's famous homer in the 1932 World Series .... I think Sammy hit that one off Brad Penny ....

Kong was awesome. He went to my high school and proud to say my son almost tied his freshman year HR record. In fact I used to live behind his house in MP Illinois. As a young kid we would shovel his mom’s drive way for a autographed baseball. After a while we kids thought she was signing the balls. Dave Kingman is Cubs royalty.

Yes, both those homers were longer, but the disclaimer is in the title -- "10 Longest Home Runs according to StatCast". So as other people have mentioned, these are the longest home runs at Wrigley only since 2015.

Yes! He was on the legendary '69 Cubs! I remember him well.

And Sosa hit one into a flower pot on the porch of the next house up Kenmore from Kingman's blast.

I'm in agreement with you brother. Kingman's shot he hit three houses down a side street off Waveland Avenue has to be a longest hit homerun of all time by any baseball player.

@@philburpalooza8 they say Sosa's over the tree across the street in LCF was further. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wH4-s4bsqZY.html

You can see Kingman ball bounce. It does not land back there. I am sure it bounced back there down the street.

​@@philburpalooza8 no it didn't. Watch the tape. You can see it bounce right after it clears the stadium from the tape. Takes a big bounce, but the Homer is out of gas once it lands in the ground

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Hate to differ with you but Sosa hit one that landed in a flower pot and stuck on the fourth house up Kenmore, one house further than Kingman's blast.

Kong' 79 blast went 570-580 ft. as it hit the 4th house / 5th lot up Kenmore and NOT the 530 that he gets credited for. It hit the porch that the guys comes out on. Lou corrects himself on the replay. Sosa' blast was another bomb but down the sidewalk on the left side of the street a bit shorter than Kong's. By some accounts Kong's 76 shot off Tom Detorre may have went further. Love to see some footage of that one.

​@@justafanintexas7913wrong; Kongs hit the fourth house as well so at worst its a tie there...

@@johnkolakowski4253 - So all the experts and witnesses are wrong, especially the center field camera? You must be a treat to be around.

@@justafanintexas7913 measure it first lunkhead... I live right there and its way farther then theyre giving it credit for

thats what im saying!

Yeah, I was certain that’d be number 1

Absolutely...

That man had the most violent baseball swing I've ever seen

@@HawkeyeCR52322 jacked up on the juice too. Loved him

Dave Kingman also...530 ft on to a porch on a cross street off Waveland 3 houses down.

@@johnnyg2049 that was a big one too

nah kingmans went further

i think sosa put one through a window across the street... and i had the luxory of being at the ballpark for hills... landed on the roof across the street... estimates of 505+ for that one... kingmans was deffently the longest...

Glenallen Hill hit on on the back of the rooftop in left.

@@mattbasford6299 Kingman hit the house across the street from there and down 3 houses. Sosa also put one over the tree in front of the house Hill hit.

@@robertthomas7239 I saw those as well. All were massive shots

Several did, including Billy Williams.

.... and Willie Stargell did, too, in 1969 .... and at some point, I think Dave Parker did also ....

Dave Kingmans hr is #1 hands down. That ball went almost 600 ft.

Statcast didn't start until 2015, so that's all that was considered here. But yeah... Hill's and Kingman's were legendary.

If it hit a rooftop on Addison, it would have been a foul ball. Waveland is past left field, Sheffield past right field

@@brentgindelberger8851 okay waveland

@@brentgindelberger8851 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1NiSpQPfmI4.html

Its the statcast era so since 2015

It went 570-580 - he hit the 4th house/5th lot up kenmore. He hit the porch that the guy comes out on. Lou, corrected himself on the replay.

@@dadp9917 Willie Stargell hit one, in 1969, which, I think, cleared Sheffield on the fly .... it tied the game in the top of the 9th inning ....

This is only as of the StatCast era (2015 and on), or Hill's definitely would be #2 on the list, behind Kingman's blast, which went 4 houses down Kenmore Ave, 100 feet past Waveland Avenue.

@@dirliedirl - #4 behind Sosa's blast three weeks later that cleared those rooftop seats and Sosa's blast to the porch of the house one up from Kingman's.

And Sosa hit one to the next house up Kenmore.

What was 530 feet shorter in the 70’s than it is in 2021 ?

495 feet is the answer. They measure them based on the angle and velocity, as if it was hit in a flat open field with nothing in the way