The Red Sox dropped two of three to the Pirates over the weekend, but got back on track last night with a 6-4 win over Cleveland. In the sixth inning, Trevor Story hit the weirdest home run I’ve seen in a long time:
In case you can’t tell what happened, the ball hit Jhonkensy Noel’s glove, then hit the Pesky Pole, then went back to the glove, then off a fan and ultimately landed back in Noel’s glove.
Nothing after “hit the Pesky Pole” mattered, though — once it hit the foul pole, that was a home run. A 306-foot home run, to be precise — the second-shortest of the Statcast Era (2015-present). If you’re curious how a home run could possibly be shorter than that — so was I. Statcast projected the distance of this Lorenzo Cain home run to be 302 feet. You tell me which one went further.
