What is the longest home run in MLB history? Baseball's most powerful sluggers have launched balls into orbit over the years.
One of the purest joys in sports is watching a baseball player send a ball soaring into the stands, or beyond them, for a home run.
Home runs are magical, whether they come on the biggest stage or get sent out in waves during the MLB Home Run Derby.
But who has hit one the longest?
What is the longest home run in MLB history?
The answer to that depends on how much you want to trust the accuracy of the claim.
Babe Ruth is generally considered the owner of the record for the longest home run in MLB history with a 575-foot bomb launched at Navin Field in Detroit in 1921.
He's also attributed with a 587-foot homer in Tampa, though historians have suggested it was closer to the 550-560-foot range.
The trouble, of course, is that measuring technology and trustworthiness wasn't the greatest back then. So you have to trust the historical accounts to a certain point.
More recently, Dave Nicholson hit a bomb that was officially measured to be 573 feet at Comiskey Park in 1964. It cleared the left-field roof of the park.
What is the longest home run in the Statcast era?
Statcast has tracked home run distances since 2015. The longest home run between then and 2023 belongs to Nomar Mazara, the White Sox slugger who blasted a 505-foot homer in 2019.
Just to put some perspective on the historic perception of home run length, Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus watched Mazara's home run from first base and said this, per MLB.com: "I think it was more than 505 feet. It was more like 600 feet. It was really loud. We know he can do that. He's got a lot of pop in his bat."
Here are the five longest home runs recorded by Statcast:
- 505 feet — Nomar Mazara, Rangers vs. White Sox on June 21, 2019
- 504 feet — C.J. Cron, Rockies vs. Diamonbacks on Sept. 9, 2022
504 feet — Giancarlo Stanton, Yankees vs. Rockies on Aug. 6, 2016 - 499 feet — Christian Yelich, Brewers vs. Rockies on Sept. 6, 2022
- 496 feet — Jesus Sanchez, Marlins vs. Rockies on May 30, 2022
496 feet — Miguel Sano, Twins vs. White Sox on Sept. 17, 2019
496 feet — Aaron Judge, Yankees vs. Blue Jays on Sept. 30, 2017 - 495 feet — Ronald Acuna Jr., Braves vs. Red Sox on Sept. 25, 2020
495 feet — Joey Gallo, Rangers vs. Guardians on July 20, 2018
495 feet — Aaron Judge, Yankees vs. Orioles on June 11, 2017
495 feet — Miguel Sano, Twins vs. Red Sox on Aug. 25, 2021
495 feet — Ryan McMahon, Rockies vs. Cardinals on Aug. 9, 2022
