MILWAUKEE – They all count the same. Some just look and feel a little bit better.
These are the longest home runs on record at American Family Field, which opened in 2001 as Miller Park and has earned a reputation as a prime location to swing for the fences. When the stadium opened, the Brewers hosted engineering students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to plot various points in home run territory, aiding in projecting how far the baseball would have flown if not impeded by stadium seats, walls or, in this particular case, a mascot’s winding slide. Since 2015, that data has come from Statcast.
Sourcing is key here, because at least one notable hit tracker references a 474-foot Ryan Braun homer from September 2007 that you won’t find on this list because it doesn’t appear on the Brewers’ “official” list in their media guide and didn’t appear in MLB.com’s game story from that night. In fact, Prince Fielder’s 458-foot homer in the same game did get a mention, which supports that there may have been a data error with the Braun blast.
The same goes for two other 2007 homers, one for Fielder against the Braves and one for Rickie Weeks against the Padres, which would have made this list if we could find supporting evidence. Neither homer was noted as particularly prodigious in contemporary news reports. So they’re not on the list.
With those caveats, and using a combination of the Brewers’ official records and Statcast data as sourcing, here are the the most prodigious blasts at Milwaukee’s domed home:
1. 480 feet
Russell Branyan
July 27, 2004 off Greg Maddux (Cubs)
It’s one of the most beautiful clips in MLB.com’s massive library of video highlights, both because of Branyan’s easy and yet prodigious swing and because we get the late, legendary Bob Uecker on the call.
“Hey! Get up, get up and wayyy outta here, gone for Branyan!” Uecker says in his breezy, familiar cadence. “And the Brewers are finally on the board on a booming home run. Well, when they got him, they were looking for home run power.”
Branyan, a 6-foot-4 Georgian, was a “three true outcome” king who struck out a ton but walked and homered enough that 10 clubs employed him for parts of 14 Major League seasons, including two separate stints with the Brewers. Did you know Branyan finished with 194 homers in the big leagues? Or that he had a 31-homer season for Seattle in 2009? The man could hit a baseball a long way. Against Maddux, Branyan supplied all of the velocity himself.
2. 479 feet
Marcell Ozuna (Cardinals)
April 3, 2018 off Chase Anderson
This game is better remembered as the first contest in Major League history that started and ended with back-to-back home runs. Dexter Fowler and Tommy Pham went deep for the Cardinals within the game’s first three pitches, only to be answered by Christian Yelich and Ryan Braun with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. Yelich, down to his final strike, tied it with his first Brewers home run before Braun smashed the next Dominic Leone pitch into the home bullpen for a stunning 5-4 win.
But Ozuna’s first Cardinals homer also stood out. As of 2025, it remained the longest in Milwaukee ever tracked by Statcast.
3. 478 feet
Travis Shaw
April 20, 2017 off Carlos Martinez (Cardinals)
Here’s an example of how history can change. On the broadcast of this 7-5 Brewers win over the Cardinals and in a story on MLB.com afterward, Shaw’s booming three-run home run is celebrated for the fact that it sailed 458 feet according to Statcast – or, it would have sailed that far had it not clanked off the facing of the stadium's third deck. It was the hardest-hit homer by a Brewers batter this season, and "one of the best balls I've ever hit," Shaw said.
But in retrospect, it went even farther. The distance was later revised to 478 feet, where it remains for posterity.
T4. 475 feet
Prince Fielder
May 12, 2006 off Jose Lima (Mets)
Fielder was 7 years old on Sept. 14, 1991, watching on television when his dad, playing for the Tigers, hit what is believed to be the most massive home run in Milwaukee County Stadium history. It was a 502-foot blast that cleared the left-field bleachers. Sixteen years later, batting against one of Cecil Fielder’s old Tigers teammates, Prince hit a monster of his own.
"He's going to have a hell of a career ahead of him," said Lima. "I remember when he was a little baby, and now he's coming back to haunt me. I don't know why, I was nice to him. I gave him candy. It was a hell of a shot."
T4. 475 feet
Prince Fielder
July 30, 2011 off Aneury Rodriguez (Astros)
Veteran infielder Jerry Hairston joined the Brewers earlier in the day to augment what became Milwaukee’s first division-winning club in 29 years, but it was still Fielder leading the way. His 24th homer was a solo shot that landed beyond the right-field bleachers, hitting a stadium support below where a Racing Sausages-themed clock once hung.
6. 474 feet
Ryan Braun
May 25, 2015 off Tim Lincecum (Giants)
Braun's two-run homer off the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner left the bat at 113 mph, according to Statcast, and sailed over the bleachers and onto the concrete concourse that circles the ballpark. At the time, it was the most prodigious home run by a right-handed hitter in the 15-year history of Miller Park.
7. 473 feet
Kyle Schwarber (Cubs)
July 28, 2019 off Zach Davies
If you’re going to give up a grand slam, it might as well be a monster. That was the case for Davies when Schwarber connected for a first-pitch slam in the second inning, the first of the slugger’s two home runs off the righty that day.
T8. 470 feet
Rickie Weeks
Sept. 27, 2011 off Ross Ohlendorf (Pirates)
When Weeks’ go-ahead solo homer smashed into the glass stadium club in left field, it was the longest homer ever for a right-handed batter and the fourth-longest homer for any batter in the first decade at Miller Park. But it was overshadowed by Fielder's first three-homer game and the fact Milwaukee clinched home-field advantage in the opening round of the playoffs.
Still, Weeks’ shot in his first game back from a left ankle injury elicited a big reaction from his friend Fielder, who was watching in the dugout. Could Weeks remember hitting one that far before?
“Hard? Yes,” Weeks said. “Far? Probably not.”
T8. 470 feet
Joey Votto (Reds)
Sept. 14, 2013 off Michael Blazek
Brewers center fielder Carlos Gómez had robbed a Votto homer with an unforgettable game-ending catch earlier that same season. But Votto earned a measure of payback two months later with a two-out, two-run home run that struck very near the top of the right-field foul pole – so high that the video replay missed it.
10. 466 feet
Matt Holliday (Cardinals)
May 30, 2016 off Jhan Mariñez
After helping the Cardinals avoid a Brewers sweep, Holliday summed up the feeling of all of the hitters on this list who hit one up, up, up and outta here.
"It feels like batting practice, but doing it in a game,” Holliday said. “So it feels good."