Joey Gallo Just Blasted The Longest And Hardest-Hit Home Run Of 2017

Baseball fans have been hearing about Joey Gallo’s tremendous power for quite some time, but the Texas Rangers slugger has yet to put it together, including the start of the 2017 season.

Gallo entered Friday hitting a loud .189 … but he would add to that against the Kansas City Royals:

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My word. That’s big power from a big man, and is now the hardest hit and longest home run of the 2017 season.

But wait, there’s more:

So ESPN’s tracking system read that ball even harder off the bat. Insanely hard off the bat.

No matter whose metrics you want to apply here, that ball was well struck.

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Luis C. Medina, who you can find on Twitter at lcm1986, has been covering the Chicago Bears at Bleacher Nation since 2017. Since then, he has written about 3 head coaches, 5 play-callers, and 11 starting quarterbacks. Previously, Luis wrote about the Cubs and MLB at BN (2015-16) and worked in the Chicago Tribune sports department (2011-16). He also co-hosted a Cubs postgame show, Outside the Ivy, in 2019.

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