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After dominating the bottom of the list, Elly De La Cruz saw some teammates join him on the list in the top half. But the Cincinnati Reds shortstop is back for the 6th time and on top of the list for the entire 2025 season. If we learned anything from Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux a few decades ago it is that everyone loves the long ball. Perhaps that wasn’t quite the takeaway from the two Cy Young Award winners, but long home runs have been something people have talked about for over a hundred years. Only in the last decade or so, though, have we truly been able to measure their distance with *some* accuracy. Thanks to ball tracking in the big leagues we can compare 1-to-1 how far a baseball went. Every week for the next few months we’re going to be counting down the 10 longest home runs hit by the Cincinnati Reds in the 2025 season.
The longest home run hit by a Cincinnati Reds in 2025 came on May 27th when Elly De La Cruz hit his 11th home run of the season, sending on deep into the evening sky in Kansas City against the Royals.
The Video
The Metrics Behind The Blast
Distance Metrics
Distance: 451 Feet
Reds Ranks: 1st
Major League Baseball Rank: 65th (tied)
Elly De La Cruz Rank: 1
Other Metrics
Launch Angle: 25°
Exit Velocity: 112.5 MPH
Bat Speed: 77.2 MPH
Reds Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 5th (out of 167)
Reds Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 26th (of 157)
MLB Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 156th (out of 5544)
MLB Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 1515th (out of 5288)
The Story Behind The Blast
After getting ahead 1-0 in the count, Elly De La Cruz got a fastball from Taylor Clarke that was called for up and away on the edge of the zone. Clarke got the height of the pitch right, but instead of the outside corner he left it in the middle of the plate and the Cincinnati Reds shortstop made him pay for it. The home run led off the 6th inning, landed in the waterfall in right-center at Kauffman Stadium, and broke a 2-2 tie to give Cincinnati the lead.
For the Reds it was their 3rd solo home run of the game. For De La Cruz it was his second of the night. His first home run was also an absolute blast and ranked 7th on the list of longest home runs this year by a Red at 436 feet. Cincinnati would add four runs in the final two innings to win the game 7-2 and get back to the .500 mark at 28-28.
After going through a bit of a slump earlier in the month, De La Cruz had been on fire of late and he kept on riding this hot streak for a few more weeks as he hit .361/.452/.778 with six doubles and eight home runs in 20 games from May 24th through June 15th.
You can follow along the entire series here.
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