In this list, we’re counting down the 10 longest home runs at Oracle Park through the 2022 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. This list includes one home run from a young and promising slugger, multiple entries from players who are no longer in the big leagues and a blast from a San Francisco fan favorite. (All videos appear courtesy of MLB.)
San Francisco’s Oracle Park is widely considered one of the finest facilities in all of baseball, thanks to its stylish design, its location adjacent to San Francisco Bay and its garlic fries. Talk to any serious baseball traveler, and there’s a good chance that this park is among their favorites.
Here’s a look at the 10 longest home runs at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
9 (t). Scott Schebler — 457 feet
Outfielder Scott Schebler kicks off our list with a home run hit in 2017 — the best offensive season of his career. Schebler surprised a lot of people by hitting 30 home runs that year, and his farthest was a bomb he hit at Oracle Park on May 13. The home run in question, which came off an elevated pitch from Matt Moore, traveled 457 feet into the seats in center field. His 10th home run of the season left Schebler’s bat at 109 mph.
9 (t). Yoenis Cespedes — 457 feet
The 2016 season was one of the best of Yoenis Cespedes’s career, as he earned his first National League Silver Slugger Award and was named to the NL’s All-Star Team for the second time. Cespedes hit 31 home runs in 2016, with the longest coming in San Francisco on August 20. The blast, his 23rd of the campaign, came off a fastball from Matt Moore that Cespedes hammered deep into the seats in left-center field. The home run had an exit velocity of 107.3 mph.
7 (t). Hunter Pence — 458 feet
Outfielder Hunter Pence was known for putting on displays of power during batting practice, but he put up impressive power during games, too — hitting 244 career home runs over the course of 14 seasons. A long-time Giant, Pence’s longest home run at home came on April 24, 2016. Pence lifted a fastball from Adam Conley 458 feet deep to center field, where it landed at the base of the batter’s eye. The third home run of a 13-home run season for Pence had an exit velocity of 110.6 mph.
7 (t). Fernando Tatis Jr. — 458 feet
Playing in an empty Oracle Park on September 25 during the pandemic-shortened 2020 MLB season, Fernando Tatis Jr. drilled one of the longest home runs of his career to date. Tatis Jr. lifted a Jeff Samardzija pitch that was below the strike zone 458 feet to deep to left-center field, where it landed in the top of the seats. The ball left the young star’s bat at 110.9 mph and was his 16th home run of the season.
6. Christian Walker — 461 feet
Arizona’s Christian Walker, who hit a monstrous home run at Oracle Park on August 15, 2022, owns the most recent entry on this list. Walker hammered a low pitch from Alex Cobb 461 feet to center field, connecting with an exit velocity of 111.1 mph. It was the 28th home run of the season for Walker, who ended up with a career-best 36 by season’s end.
5. Mac Williamson — 464 feet
Outfielder Mac Williamson hit four home runs in 28 games for the Giants in 2018, and his second long ball of the season on April 23 is the one most worth remembering. Williamson connected with an exit velocity of 111.5 mph with a fastball from Washington’s Shawn Kelley and sent the ball deep into the center field seats, 464 feet from home plate.
4. Gary Sanchez — 467 feet
Catcher Gary Sanchez has hit top-10 home runs at numerous MLB ballparks, including Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and Tropicana Field. He hit his longest home run in San Francisco on April 27, 2019, hammering a grand slam against Derek Holland with his Yankees team already leading 2-0. Sanchez blasted a low slider 467 feet deep into the seats in left-center field. The home run had an exit velocity of 110.8 mph.
3. Kennys Vargas — 471 feet
Although he only hit 35 home runs during his four-year MLB career, Minnesota’s Kennys Vargas had several long and impressive blasts. His bomb on June 10, 2017, still holds up as one of the longest at Oracle Park. Vargas connected with a slider from Jeff Samardzija and drove the ball deep into center field seats, 471 feet from home plate. The blast was Vargas’s sixth of the season and had an exit velocity of 116 mph.
2. Jorge Alfaro — 473 feet
Catcher Jorge Alfaro hit a career-high 18 home runs in 2019, and his 15th of that season is his longest home run to date. It came in San Francisco on September 14 on a pitch that missed the strike zone low and inside from Madison Bumgarner. Alfaro got a good swing on the pitch and lifted it deep to left-center field. It left the bat at 109.5 mph and traveled 473 feet, landing just a few rows below the concourse.
1. Ian Desmond — 477 feet
The longest home run at Oracle Park in the Statcast era belongs to Ian Desmond, who hit the memorable blast on August 15, 2015. Desmond turned on an inside pitch from Jake Peavy and hammered it deep to left field with an exit velocity of 112.7 mph. The ball made it all the way to the concourse, 477 feet from home plate. It was Desmond’s 15th home run of the season and the fourth-longest home run hit in the big leagues in 2015.
The 10 Longest Home Runs at Oracle Park are:
1. Ian Desmond — 477 feet
2. Jorge Alfaro — 473 feet
3. Kennys Vargas — 471 feet
4. Gary Sanchez — 467 feet
5. Mac Williamson — 464 feet
6. Christian Walker — 461 feet
7 (t). Fernando Tatis Jr. — 458 feet
7 (t). Hunter Pence — 458 feet
9 (t). Yoenis Cespedes — 457 feet
9 (t). Scott Schebler — 457 feet