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Watch: Joey Gallo breaks Statcast with gargantuan home run

It's gotta be one of the longest homers ever hit at Target Field.

Joe Nelson

Watch: Joey Gallo breaks Statcast with gargantuan home run
Watch: Joey Gallo breaks Statcast with gargantuan home run /

Joey Gallo launched his eight homer of the year and it went so far that it not even Statcast knew how to calculate the distance right away. He hit the ball a mile in the air and it landed halfway up the upper deck in right-center field. 

As of this writing, the official distance of Gallo's homer remains unknown. 

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Gallo was the leadoff batter for the game and the No. 2 hitter was Alex Kirilloff, who homered in his first at-bat in the first inning and then went back-to-back with Gallo in the third inning with a shot that was projected at 422 feet after leaving his bat at 101.3 mph. 

Kirilloff's homer in the first inning cleared the left-field wall by a couple of bleacher rows. 

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Joe Nelson
JOE NELSON

Title: Bring Me The Sports co-owner, editor Email: joe@bringmethenews.com Twitter: @JoeBMTN Education: Southwest Minnesota State University Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Expertise: All things Minnesota sports Nelson has covered Minnesota sports for two decades, starting his media career in sports radio. He worked at small market Minnesota stations in Marshall and St. Cloud before joining one of the nation's highest-rated sports stations, KFAN-FM 100.3 in the Twin Cities. There, he was the producer of the top-rated mid-morning sports show with Minnesota Vikings announcer Paul Allen.  His radio experience helped blossom a career as a sports writer, joining Minneapolis-based Bring Me The News in 2011.  Nelson and Adam Uren became co-owners of Bring Me The News in 2018 and have since more than tripled the site's traffic and launched Bring Me The Sports in cooperation with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation umbrella. Nelson has covered the Super Bowl and numerous training camps, NFL combines, the MLB All-Star Game and Minnesota playoff games, in addition to the day-to-day happenings on and off the field of play.  Nelson also has extensive knowledge of non-sports subjects, including news and weather. He works closely with Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard to produce a bevy of weather and climate information for Minnesota readers.  Nelson helped launch and manage the Bring Me The News Radio Network, which provided more than 50 radio stations around Minnesota with daily news, sports and weather reports from 2011-17. 

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