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Another week and another part in this series and this week another repeat of sorts as we are once again looking about Elly De La Cruz. If Tom Glavine and Greg Maddux have taught us anything it’s that everyone loves the long ball. Maybe that wasn’t exactly the takeaway from those two, 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 late May Elly De La Cruz connected for the 7th longest home run of the Cincinnati Reds season as he faced the Kansas City Royals.
The Video
The Metrics Behind The Blast
This home run came in the top of the 4th inning of the game and tied things up.
Distance Metrics
Distance: 436 Feet
Reds Ranks: 7th
Major League Baseball Rank: 279th (tied)
Elly De La Cruz Rank: 3
Other Metrics
Launch Angle: 22°
Exit Velocity: 111.1 MPH
Bat Speed: 79.3 MPH
Reds Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 8th (out of 167)
Reds Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 11th (of 157)
MLB Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 318th (out of 5544)
MLB Bat Speed Rank (home runs only): 730th (out of 5288)
The Story Behind The Blast
The Reds grabbed an early lead in the top of the 2nd on a solo home run by Tyler Stephenson, but the Royals took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of that inning. That’s where the score remained until the 4th inning when Elly De La Cruz crushed this home run that tied things up. It was his first home run of the day but it was not going to be his last. The other home run he hit on the day is also going to make an appearance on this list, but you’re going to have to wait a little bit before getting to read some more about that one. This was the 2nd and final multi-homer game of the year for De La Cruz.
Cincinnati kept the Royals off of the board the rest of the game but they would add five more runs to pick up a win and get back to the .500 mark on the season with the victory.
The home run in the 4th inning game De La Cruz 10 on the year in the Reds 56th game of the season. It would take 30 more games before another player on the team got to double digits in home runs (Spencer Steer).
You can follow along the entire series here.
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