This kid just keeps doing big things. He crushed the Pirates’ collective soul in the Wild Card game and popped an opposite-field shot to open the scoring for the Cubs in Game 3 against the Cards on Monday. So it wasn’t a surprise when he got into a Kevin Siegrist fastball and darn near near put it into orbit. The power is just…well, it’s something to behold.
I don’t really know where it landed, but it sure liked as though the ball cleared the new video board in right. The original verdict was an exit velocity of 113 mph and a distance of 419 feet, but there’s no way that ball was less than 450.