It’s cool that we can quantify how important a single swing is to a player, a team, a game, and a potential trophy—especially with as bonkers a moment as Pete Alonso delivered in the Wild Card-clinching game against the Brewers on Thursday.
Alonso drove a 3-1 outside changeup 105 mph to right field, barely clearing a jutted-in wall at American Family Field. Landing 367 ft. from home plate, the ball would have exited the yard in only 13 out of 30 parks, Citi Field not among them. It was his shortest home run in 2024. But still!