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Phillies Take Game 1 of NLCS Behind Kyle Schwarber’s Historic Home Run
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119.7 MPH on the exit velocity and 488 feet for distance. Kyle Schwarber absolutely smoked one DEEP into the night as the Phillies took game 1 of the NLCS by a 2-0 scoreline.
This right here might be the coolest video of the entire postseason run thus far:
Matt Stairs 🤝 Kyle Schwarber
Same vibe. #RedOctober pic.twitter.com/XGuAivVvdl
— Luke Arcaini (@ArcainiLuke) October 19, 2022
And check out this angle:
Holy shit. This angle of the Schwarber HR!
— Crossing Broad (@CrossingBroad) October 19, 2022
According to the stats people, this is the longest homer hit by a Phillie in the Statcast era. There was a 471 foot bomb that Maikel Franco hit in 2016, which is obviously now #2. They also showed a graphic on FOX saying that the 119.7 MP exit velo makes this the hardest hit postseason home run since they began logging these numbers. There were four other homers that were actually hit harder, but they all took place in the regular season.
But Christ almighty, he destroyed that baseball. It went further than the moon. Maybe it landed on Mars or found its way to the Kuiper Belt. It seriously makes the Matt Stairs home run look like wiffle ball. What a friggin’ dinger.
Phils up 1-0 and now three games away from the World Series.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com