Statcast of the Day: Coors boosts Arenado

Nolan Arenado has proven he can hit a ball as far as anyone, and the All-Star put that on display again during Saturday’s 8-0 win over the Padres. But he also got some help from the friendly hitter’s confines of Coors Field.

In a scoreless game in the bottom of the first, Arenado muscled an Edwin Jackson pitch out to the concourse in left field with an exit velocity of 103.9 miles per hour and a launch angle of 35 degrees. Arenado, Jackson and just about everyone in the ballpark could tell from the crack of the bat that the ball was heading for the seats. The hit tracking technology of Statcast™ said so, too, as batted balls hit with similar velocity and angle this year had gone for home runs 70 percent of the time.

The only question was how far the ball would go. The answer? A projected distance of 444 feet — 13 feet farther than any other home run hit this year with a similar combination of exit velocity and launch angle.

Major League players had combined to hit 61 home runs with those dimensions entering Saturday’s games, but none of them had reached the distance of Arenado’s slam. One reason is because Arenado’s 444 feet worth of distance is more typical of a ball hit …

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