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QUOTE (Rooftop Shots @ Feb 22, 2011 -> 10:23 PM)
I'd like to see him put one past the concourse someday. So far the longest distant home run record

at the Cell is still held by "Tortured by Borchard!"

 

Dunn is listed as having hit a 535 foot homer off of Jose Lima.

 

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cin/ballpark/longest_hr.jsp

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 10:25 AM)
Dunn is listed as having hit a 535 foot homer off of Jose Lima.

 

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cin/ballpark/longest_hr.jsp

535? Holy s***. What's the longest ever hit in the majors, since decent measurements began? Can't be much more than that.

 

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:40 PM)
Ignore/mute the crappy hip-hop overtones, but it's at :30 in this video.

 

Adam Dunn Monster Home Runs Part 1

Uploaded by jumsox. - Full seasons and entire episodes online.

 

Sweet sassy molassey! It might have been the poor quality of the video, but I couldn't even see where that landed.

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QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Feb 23, 2011 -> 04:43 PM)
Sweet sassy molassey! It might have been the poor quality of the video, but I couldn't even see where that landed.

One second, it was resting in the right hand of Dodgers pitcher Jose Lima. The next, Dunn was unfurling that monster swing of his. And there went the baseball.

 

Over the fence in center field, 404 feet from home plate. Over the 20-foot patch of grass behind that fence. Over the 32-foot-high hitter's eye at the back edge of that grass. Then over yet another wall that separates Great American Ball Park from the rest of the world.

 

It's impressive enough when a guy hits a baseball and it goes over a wall. Adam Dunn hit a baseball that cleared three walls -- and came down in the street.

 

"Can you imagine you're driving along out there, switching radio channels or something, and then a baseball comes through the window -- during a game?" Casey laughed. "What the heck would you think?"

 

 

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Fortunately, Dunn's mighty homer off Lima didn't break any windows or cause any concussions. According to an HOK architect who helped design the park, it landed on a street named Mehring Way, a ridiculous 535 feet from home plate.

 

Then it hopped along for another 200 feet or so and came to rest on a piece of driftwood on the banks of the Ohio River. Which, according to local geographers, meant it was hit in Ohio and came to rest in KENTUCKY. So maybe it just wanted to visit Smarty Jones on the stud farm. That's as good an explanation as any.

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