We are now five weeks into this series and for the first time a player not named Elly De La Cruz is on the list. If we learned anything from Greg Madduc and Tom Glavine in the late 1990’s it’s that everyone loves the long ball. OK, perhaps that wasn’t the exact 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.
In early August Spencer Steer slugged the 6th longest home run of the Cincinnati Reds season as he squared off against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Video
The Metrics Behind The Blast
Distance Metrics
Distance: 439 Feet
Reds Ranks: 6th
Major League Baseball Rank: 226th (tied)
Spencer Steer Rank: 1
Other Metrics
Launch Angle: 30°
Exit Velocity: 105.6 MPH
Bat Speed: 73.5 MPH
Reds Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 55th (out of 167)
Reds Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 83rd (of 157)
MLB Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 2386th (out of 5544)
MLB Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 3540th (out of 5288)
The Story Behind The Blast
The Reds had a 2-run lead in the top of the 8th inning and Spencer Steer was facing off against former teammate Dauri Moreta, who had just returned to the big leagues after Tommy John surgery had cost him the entire previous season as well as some of 2025.
With Steer ahead in the count 2-1, Moreta went to his slider and he hung it. Dead-red, middle of the plate and Steer did what you are supposed to do with such a pitch – unloaded on it. The ball cleared the seats in left-center and landed on the concourse area, expanding the Reds lead to 9-5.
At the time the lead felt safe, but Pittsburgh scored three runs of their own in the bottom of the inning to bring the score close once again. Cincinnati put things away in the top of the 9th, though, as they put up a 5-spot to make it 14-8. That’s where the game ended.
For Spencer Steer this was his second multi-hit day in a row and he went 5-9 between the final two games in Pittsburgh. He was just 2-21 on the month before those two games. But he didn’t carry those days forward with him after he left Pittsburgh, either. Over the next (and final) 18 games of the month he hit just .200.
You can follow along the entire series here.
