Last Friday night, Eric Hosmer murdered a baseball. As John Cleese would say, it's metabolic processes are now history, it's off the twig, it's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible. This is an ex-baseball:
It was given a 443' measurement (or 81.2 Altuves if that's your thing). It was Hosmer's first home run of the season. For reference, that would have cleared the dead-center wall of Comerica Park in Detroit and Minute Maid Park in Houston, as well as old Tiger Stadium in Detroit.