The 5 Longest Home Runs in MLB History

Home runs are the cream of the crop in baseball and are oftentimes the reason one team comes out victorious over another. Over the past several decades, we’ve seen crushing hits send the ball not just over the wall but way out into the stands or even the street outside the stadium!

For this article, we’ll outline five of the longest home runs captured in MLB history, including what player hit the home run, how far the ball traveled, what ballpark it occurred in, and if it set any records in the Statcast era specifically.

T5 Jesus Sanchez, Miguel Sano, Aaron Judge – 496 feet

Starting the list of longest home runs hit in MLB history is a 3-way tie for 5th place between Miami Marlins Jesus Sanchez, Minnesota Twins Miguel Sanao, and New York Yankees Aaron Judge, all of which crushed a home run at a distance of exactly 496 feet.

To put it into perspective, the Rockies home stadium of Coors Field has their outfield wall approximately 415 yards away from home plate, so with some extra cushion on their swings, Sanchez, Mano, and Judge would all send the ball flying upward into the stands. Still, only a few players would be able to break the 500-foot mark in MLB history.

4. Christian Yelich (2022) – Milwaukee Brewers, 499 feet

A clear 4th place for longest home run hit in MLB history is Christian Yelich, with a crushing swing of 499 feet in 2022 while playing for the Milwaukee Brewers. At the time, the game was sitting at 0-0, right before Yelich would clobber a ball deep into right-center field.

Not only would this ball fly out into the stands to set a record for the Brewer’s longest hit in history, but the ball would reach the 3rd upper deck of the stadium! Yelich would help the Brewers take the lead 1-0 in one of the most jaw-dropping swings we’ve seen in MLB history.

T2. Giancarlo Stanton (2016) – Miami Marlins, 504 feet

In August of 2016, Giancarlo Stanton would make history by hitting the second-farthest flying home run in the MLB (tied with C.J. Cron) against the Colorado Rockies with the game already tied at 2-2.

With a crushing hit deep to mid-left field (considered the deepest part at Coors Field), Stanton would send the ball flying 20 rows up into the stands at a very elongated field to take the lead 3-2 with a solo home run. In total, the ball would travel 504 ft, making it just 1 of 3 home runs hit over 500 feet in the modern Statcast baseball era.

T2. C.J. Cron (2022) – Colorado Rockies, 504 feet

Tied for 2nd place with Giancarlo Stanton is C.J. Cron with a 504-foot swing to match. Playing for the Colorado Rockies in 2022, C.J. Cron would find himself at bat, ready to slam a hit into the stands at Coors Field. The Rockies were already leading by a cool 6-1 margin, so this one was icing on the cake.

As the pitch gets whipped in, Cron has no problem swinging the ball completely over the stands just inside the left field foul post, leading the ball to hit the brick wall of the Toyota Tundra advertisement board, bouncing off and landing near the self-serve food stands. Little to Crons surprise, (and 27th home run in the season), he’d crush the 2nd farthest home run in MLB history, proving that the magic happens at Coors Field once again.

1. Nomar Mazara (2019) – Texas Rangers, 505 feet

To wrap up the list of longest home runs in MLB history is the Texas Rangers player Nomar Mazara in 2019, beating out both Cron and Stanton by exactly 1 ft with a record-setting 505-foot home run. This one happened at Globe Life Field, where the outfield wall’s peak distance from the plate is 407 feet.

The game was tied at 0-0 at this moment, right before Mazara would send the ball flying to the top deck of stands and almost bounce off the glass of the clubhouse, giving his team a 2-run lead while scoring his 10th home run this season. Currently, in the Statcast era, no home run has gone further than 505 ft by the famed Rangers player Nomar Mazara.