Giancarlo Stanton turned on a 92 mph pitch from Shawn Armstrong and sent the ball soaring over the visitors’ bullpen and into Yankee Stadium’s left-bleachers.
The small crowd at New York’s first night game of the season buzzed.
When the ball came down, it landed in a fan gathering area called Frank’s Red Hot Terrace, 471 feet from home plate, near the newly repopulated deep seats.
Stanton’s eighth career grand slam carried the New York over Baltimore 7-0 Monday night and handed the Orioles their first loss this season.
“It’s kind of everything rolls in sync and, yeah, like sometimes things go not in a blackout, but just there’s no sound,” Stanton said, trying to explain the feeling of launching a ball farther than even most major leaguers can.