Soler hammered a home run 478 feet against the Colorado Rockies.
On Sunday, the San Francisco Giants' designated hitter led off the team's game against the Colorado Rockies by hammering the longest home run of the 2024 season so far.
Facing Rockies righty Ryan Feltner, Soler turned around a 94-mph fastball and sent it 478 feet to center field. The ball left the bat at 109.3 mph. The video is below., the 478-foot home run is the Giants' second-longest in the Statcast era, which began in 2015. Alex Dickerson's blast on September 1, 2020 remains the team's longest. That ball went 480 feet and also came against the Rockies at Coors Field.for the 2024 campaign belonged to Shohei Ohtani.
Soler has struggled throughout the 2024 season. In 84 games entering Sunday's action, he was slashing .222/.300/.389, with 10 home runs, 33 RBI and 91 strikeouts against 33 walks. That .689 OPS is his lowest since 2016, and he has only produced 0.2 WAR.Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He has worked in digital media since 2009, spending eight years at The Big Lead before joining SI in 2024.
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