The Giants were playing the Rockies in Coors Field on Friday night. The highlight for Giants fans, most likely, was this mammoth home run:
Watch Brandon Belt launch a 475-foot home run
Even at Coors Field, it’s rare to see a baseball reach the upper deck.
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I can only ever remember three Giants hitting a home run into that top deck in right field: Barry Bonds, Nate Schierholtz and now Brandon Belt. All sure-fire Hall of Famers, probably. In my heart, at least.
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Mercy, he hit that baseball a long way. The estimated distance of the homer was 475 feet, which is tied with this Giancarlo Stanton blast for the second-longest homer of the year. And no, that’s not even the home run that Stanton hit all the way out of Dodger Stadium.
