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Shohei Ohtani Becomes First to 30 Home Runs With 493-Foot Blast

The best player in baseball keeps getting better.
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Shohei Ohtani Becomes First to 30 Home Runs With 493-Foot Blast
Shohei Ohtani Becomes First to 30 Home Runs With 493-Foot Blast

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Los Angeles Angels

Shohei Ohtani does something absolutely remarkable on the baseball field on a seemingly daily basis, and Friday night was no different for the Angels’ two-way superstar.

In the sixth inning of Los Angeles’s 6–2 loss to the Diamondbacks, Ohtani hit a mammoth 493-foot home run, the longest of his MLB career and his 30th of the season. He is the first player to reach 30 homers on the season, and is two clear of the Braves’ Matt Olsen for the MLB lead.

According to ESPN Stats & Info, this is also the longest home run of the entire MLB season so far.

Ohtani’s exploits on a baseball diamond are always breathtaking. Once again, he had the baseball world fired up with this mammoth home run.

Ohtani was remarkable when he was merely an All-Star level pitcher and hitter. Now, he is pretty clearly the best hitter in all of baseball, and is a bona fide ace on the mound on top of it.

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Dan Lyons
DAN LYONS

Dan Lyons is a staff writer and editor at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI for his second stint in November 2024 after a season as senior college football writer at Athlon Sports and previous three-year run at SI as a writer and editor for the Breaking and Trending News team. When he’s not watching a game, you can find Dan at an indie concert venue or movie theater. Dan has a bachelor’s degree in writing and rhetoric from Syracuse.

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