Christian Yelich did something he’d never done before on Tuesday, hitting a ball 499 feet for one of the more colossal home runs you’ll ever see. It measured as the longest homer in the majors since 2019 and the third-longest since Statcast was introduced in ’15, as well as the longest recorded by a left-handed hitter at Coors Field. While the length of the ball’s majestic flight was surely helped by Denver’s thin air, this would’ve been long gone anywhere and far outpaced Yelich’s previous career best of 462 feet.
Yelich’s moon shot, his first since Aug. 28, was a reminder of what Milwaukee has been missing over the past few seasons.