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Here's Mike Napoli crushing a home run into Rogers Centre's fifth deck

Mike Napoli crushes long home run into top deck

When you look at Mike Napoli, what do you think?

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Scary? Strong? Power? Beauty?

Well, during Tuesday's Red Sox-Blue Jays game, he combined all of those characteristics into one swing of the bat -- sending a majestic 451-foot long ball into Rogers Centre's fifth deck.

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While teammate and two-time Home Run Derby champ Yoenis Cespedes seemed impressed with the moonshot, Napoli brushed it off as business as usual:

"It's always nice to mess around with your teammates and everyone's just going crazy in the dugout," Napoli said. "But it's just a homer."

In reality, Napoli is just the 17th player to ever reach the top deck and the first Red Sox player since this guy back in 2001:

 

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