Braves’ Acuna smashes longest homer of season

Atlanta Braves center fielder Ronald Acuna Jr. belted a tape-measure dwelling speed that will not rapidly be forgotten within the first inning Friday against the visiting Boston Red Sox.

Acuna rocked a 495-foot leadoff shot to the conclude of the left-discipline seats that measured because the longest homer in Main League Baseball this season and tied for the fifth longest within the Statcast generation (since 2015).

The dwelling speed came on a 3-1 count off factual-hander Chris Mazza. It used to be the 19th occupation leadoff homer for Acuna. That is the second most in baseball since 2018, when Acuna used to be Nationwide League Rookie of the 300 and sixty five days.

It is the longest homer at Truist Park, which opened in 2017.

“I was within the stands watching,” Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman told journalists, “and that is the rationale the farthest ball I’ve ever considered hit in individual. That used to be unbelievable.”

Braves manager Brian Snitker agreed: “Yeah, that’s doubtlessly the longest one I’ve considered here on this ballpark. It used to be factual, ‘Oh my God.'”

Acuna has 14 dwelling runs this season after hitting 41 final year.

He carried out 1-for-4 with a trail and three runs Friday because the Braves beat the Red Sox 8-7 in 11 innings to clinch the No. 2 seed within the Nationwide League playoffs.

Files from ESPN Stats & Files used to be weak on this represent.