Baseball world reacts to Stanton's monster HR
Giancarlo Stanton has made a career of destroying baseballs, but his home run Saturday night was one for the record books.
The United States outfielder crushed a two-run home run off Dominican Republic starter Ervin Santana that went into the second deck of the Western Metal Supply Co. building at Petco Park.
While the ball was estimated to have traveled 424 feet, what's more impressive is that fact that it had an exit velocity of 117.3 mph - making it the fourth-hardest-hit homer in the Statcast era.
To no one's surprise, Stanton's peers were floored by the blast.
Omggggg!!!! I need to see the exit velocity on that!
— Mike Napoli (@MikeNapoli25) March 19, 2017
I hope that western metal supply co building has insurance, I think @Giancarlo818 just put a hole in it! #USA 🇺🇸⚾
— Justin Turner (@redturn2) March 19, 2017
Wow @Giancarlo818 ... @DaveWinfieldHOF type line drive HR. #manchild #wbc2017
— Alex Rodriguez (@AROD) March 19, 2017
STANTON !! 💪🏾💪🏾 #USA
— Taijuan Walker (@tai_walker) March 19, 2017
Stanton just hit a ball that went out in 2 sec no joke lol #USA #worldbaseballclassic
— Delino DeShields (@LinoDeShields) March 19, 2017
Whew .... #Marlins Giancarlo Stanton just let Ervin Santana know who his daddy is ... wow 2 run bomb gives USA 4-2 lead T4th. pic.twitter.com/G6bsJbiDXp
— Dan Plesac (@Plesac19) March 19, 2017
Mama there goes that man again ....@Giancarlo818 #marlins
— Dontrelle Willis (@DTrainMLB) March 19, 2017
That baseball is lopsided! #usabaseball
— Chipper Jones (@RealCJ10) March 19, 2017
@Giancarlo818 just doing what he does. #lasershow let's go USA.
— Nick Vincent (@NickVincent50) March 19, 2017
(Video courtesy: MLB.com)