One day after Manny Machado launched the longest home run of the season (470 feet), Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Jake Lamb one-upped the Baltimore Orioles slugger.
#RAKELAMB pic.twitter.com/7Yf416ldNZ
— Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks) April 30, 2017
Who says Lamb can’t hit lefties?
According to Statcast, that ball left the bat at 108 MPH and an almost perfect 27 degrees. Add it up, and it’s not hard to see why it traveled further than any other homer this season:
Look out, @JakeLamb18 just soared to the top of #Statcast's 2017 HR distance leaderboard.
481 feet! pic.twitter.com/48dGqMnVfZ
— #Statcast (@statcast) April 30, 2017
What an absolute rocket.
That home run, Lamb’s 5th of the season, gave the Diamondbacks a 6-1 lead after five innings … unfortunately, even that wasn’t enough to keep the Rockies down.
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An inning later, Mark Reynolds crushed his eighth home run of the season on a broken bat swing to center field:
https://twitter.com/Rockies/status/858517156211826690
And then Alexi Amarista followed that with another home run of his own in the seventh. A couple more RBI from Reynolds in the ninth sealed the deal and made at least one Rockies fan really happy:
Down 6-1 after 5. 3-run rally in the 9th. That was one heck of a #RoxWin! pic.twitter.com/fp5TYdDQaU
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 30, 2017
WHAT A COMEBACK! WHAT A COMEBACK! #ROXWIN! pic.twitter.com/mPPcW4edJ9
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) April 30, 2017
Rockies win 7-6.
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