It landed in the front row, about two seats from the pole. Buster Posey announces his retirement from Major League Baseball during a news conference at Oracle Park, Thursday, Nov. Prior to starting his illustrious Giants career, Buster Posey spent parts of two seasons in a Fresno Grizzlies uniform. The shortest homer of the Statcast era belongs to Lorenzo Cain, who sliced a ball just barely over the wall on July 29, 2017. Devers’s homer is the shortest since Stephen Vogt snuck one around the pole on Sept. One of those is a data error ( a 2017 homer by Buster Posey with a projected distance of 311 feet that actually cleared the fence in Atlanta 325 feet from home plate) but the rest were all hit in Boston. He spent his entire twelve-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the San Francisco Giants, from 2009 until his retirement at the conclusion of the. Only two other home runs this season had a projected distance of 320 feet or less: one by the Guardians’ Andrés Giménez that also hit the Pesky Pole and a wall-scraper by the White Sox’ Seby Zavala that barely reached Yankee Stadium’s short porch.Įxcluding inside-the-park home runs, Devers’s “blast” is one of only six homers in the Statcast era with a projected distance of 311 feet or less. 🔻 4th /dZhhetX7aq- Would it dong? June 14, 2023 4, Poseys decision to hang up the cleats was due - in some part - to the toll the game took on his body over the years. This would have been a home run at Fenway Park and nowhere else. Officially announcing his retirement from MLB in a press conference at Oracle Park on Nov. Rafael Devers vs Chase Anderson #DirtyWater That’s the shortest homer of the season so far and one of the shortest since Statcast tracking began in 2015. MLB’s Statcast system projected that if the ball didn’t hit the foul pole, it would have traveled 311 feet. it's a Devers dinger! /nclvAcO2HE- Red Sox June 14, 2023 The umpiring crew wasn’t sure at first whether to call it a home run, but after a replay review, Devers allowed to circle the bases on one of the shortest home runs you’ll ever see.Īfter further review. The ball curled toward the foul pole-the famous “Pesky Pole” that stands just 302 feet from home plate-and struck it. With a runner on first and one out in the bottom of the fourth, Devers pulled a flyball down the line in right off of Rockies starter Chase Anderson.
Red Sox slugger Rafael Devers has hit 67 home runs at home in Fenway Park, but never before has he hit one like he did on Tuesday night. By JANIE McCAULEY NovemSAN FRANCISCO (AP) Initially, as a young player more than a decade ago, Buster Posey had a tough time understanding how the San Francisco Giants strive to humanize their players, to connect them with a fan base that wants nothing more than to get to know the star athletes it supports.
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