Michael Taylor's homer was the longest of the year, but this one might be even more epic
Marcell Ozuna's homer bounces off top of foul pole
In the bottom of the second inning of Thursday's Phillies-Marlins matchup, Marcell Ozuna hit a towering two-run home run.
It was the second Marlins dinger that inning and put the team up, 8-1. It was Ozuna's first home run at Marlins Park this season and -- WHOA, WHOA, WHOA. Wait a minute. Where did that ball hit?
Hol-ey mo-ley (holy Melvin Mora?). That's like William Tell shooting an apple off his son's head, if his son were a hundred feet tall. We may very well have just witnessed the trick-shot home run of the year ...
... on the same night we witnessed the longest home run of the season so far: Michael Taylor's 493-foot (!!) two-run homer against the Rockies that Statcast™ pegged as the farthest-traveled baseball this year -- topping Nelson Cruz by a solid 10 feet.
So, that's one home run that landed, somehow, someway, on top of a 90-foot-high pole and one that was hit so far it deserves its own road trip movie. Anyone else's minds feel a bit blown?