Gallo’s second-inning drive off Carlos Carrasco was measured at 443 feet, but it sure looks like it went a lot longer, seeing how it landed halfway up the stands.
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It also looked a lot longer than Gallo’s first major league homer, a bomb against Jeff Samardzija in 2015 that traveled into the same section.
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That home run was measured at 444 feet. Color us skeptical about Tuesday’s measurement, then.
And color us unenthused about the Statcast-izing of Tuesday’s dinger.
To quote the guys in the bleachers in the original “Major League” movie:
INDIANS FAN 1: “Too high? Too hard.”
INDIANS FAN 2: “That was just really high.”
INDIANS FAN 3: “Who gives a s—? It’s gone.”