Ask any Red Sox fan, and they’ll enthusiastically tell you that the longest home run every hit at Fenway Park came off the bat of Ted Williams. The home run in question, hit by Williams on June 9, 1946, is said to have traveled 502 feet. Today, the seat on which the baseball landed is red, while the rest of the seats in the right field bleachers are green.
Unfortunately, Statcast wasn’t around to track home run distance when Teddy Ballgame was playing, nor when Manny was being Manny and launching baseballs into the Boston night.
In this list, we’re counting down the 10 longest home runs at Fenway Park as of the conclusion of the 2021 season. It’s important to note that these home runs are only from 2015 onward, when MLB’s Statcast began to officially track the distance of each MLB home run.
Here’s a look at the 10 longest home runs at Fenway Park in Boston.
10. Carlos Correa — 455 feet
It’s always exciting when a player can hit a baseball onto the 37-foot Green Monster in left field, but even more impressive when a baseball sails over the Monster and out of Fenway entirely. That’s exactly what Carlos Correa’s 455-foot blast against Clay Buchholz did on May 14, 2016. The home run had an exit velocity of 111.6 mph and was Correa’s sixth of the season.
9. Rafael Devers — 457 feet
Rafael Devers brought the Fenway faithful to their feet with a tape measure blast on August 14, 2021. The third baseman’s 29th home run of the season landed deep in the right field bleachers, 457 feet from home plate. The blast had an exit velocity of 107.7 mph and came off Jorge López of the Baltimore Orioles.
8. Brandon Lowe — 459 feet
Playing in front of an empty Fenway Park on August 13 of the pandemic-shortened 2020 season, Tampa Bay’s Brandon Lowe got all of a Kyle Hart fastball in the third inning. Lowe smacked the baseball 459 feet with an exit velocity of 108.4 mph, sending it several rows deep into the right-center field bleachers behind Fenway’s bullpens. The long ball was Lowe’s fifth of the season.
7. C.J. Cron — 464 feet
C.J. Cron’s 23rd home run of 2018 was his longest shot of the season. The Tampa Bay designated hitter squared up a David Price cutter on August 18 and knocked it over the Green Monster with a distance of 464 feet. The home run, which had an exit velocity of 112.9 mph, flew just inside of the left field foul pole and disappeared into the Boston night.
6. Nelson Cruz — 465 feet
Seattle’s Nelson Cruz has more career home runs than anyone else on this list, and his longest blast at Fenway Park came on June 22, 2018. Facing Boston knuckle baller Steven Wright, Cruz hit the baseball 465 feet off one of the light towers on the Green Monster. The home run, which had an exit velocity of 113.1 mph, was the 19th of the season for Cruz.
5. Manny Machado — 466 feet
When he was in the American League East with the Baltimore Orioles, Manny Machado got plenty of chances to hit long balls at Fenway. His shot against Kyle Kendrick on May 4, 2017, still measures up as one of the longest of his career. Machado smacked a slider straight over the top of the Green Monster, well above the heads of anyone who might’ve hoped to catch it. The hit had an exit velocity of 113.4 mph and was Machado’s seventh home run of the season.
4. Bo Bichette — 468 feet
Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette earns fourth place on this list, thanks to a 468-foot home run on June 12, 2021. Bichette connected on a hanging curve from Nick Pivetta and hit the baseball with an exit velocity of 111.1 mph for his 12th home run of the ’21 campaign. As is often the case with long home runs to left-center field, the ball soared over the Monster.
3. Hanley Ramirez — 469 feet
Hanley Ramirez hit 271 home runs in his big league career, but none went farther than his shot on April 29, 2017. In his third season with Boston, Ramirez squared up a slider from Chicago’s John Lackey and pummeled the baseball 469 feet with an exit velocity of 114 mph. His second long ball of the season soared high above the Green Monster, leaving Fenway in a hurry.
2. Gary Sánchez — 479 feet
The body language of Boston pitcher Eduardo Rodriguez says a lot about the home run that New York’s Gary Sánchez hit in Game 2 of the 2018 ALDS on October 6. Rodriguez served up a slider that Sánchez clubbed with an exit velocity of 114.8 mph, sending the baseball deep over the Green Monster in left-center. Upon Sánchez making contact, the Boston pitcher crouched and almost looked tentative to peek over his right shoulder to see the ball’s flight path.
1. Miguel Sanó — 495 feet
There are lots of things to say about the home run that Minnesota’s Miguel Sanó hit against Nick Pivetta at Fenway Park on August 25, 2021. At 495 feet, the blast is the longest at the Boston ballpark in the Statcast era. It was also the longest home run of the 2021 season — but just one foot shy of Sanó’s career-long home run, which came at Target Field. The Boston shot, Sanó’s 22nd of the season, had an exit velocity of a staggering 116.7 mph and sailed high over the center field side of the Green Monster.
The 10 Longest Home Runs at Fenway Park are:
1. Miguel Sanó — 495 feet
2. Gary Sánchez — 479 feet
3. Hanley Ramirez — 469 feet
4. Bo Bichette — 468 feet
5. Manny Machado — 466 feet
6. Nelson Cruz — 465 feet
7. C.J. Cron — 464 feet
8. Brandon Lowe — 459 feet
9. Rafael Devers — 457 feet
10. Carlos Correa — 455 feet