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But what about the distance category? What about total height?
After Thursday's Asheville Tourists game, Astros prospect Luis Santana has that crown and nobody is even close.
this unbelievable bat flip from Astros prospect Luis Santana (acquired from the Mets in the JD Davis trade) already has nearly 500K views but it'd be well over a million if it was shot in landscapepic.twitter.com/aUL2t3hymW
It nearly leaves the frame all-together. A few more feet and it would've entered zero gravity and ricocheted off Elon Musk's space car.
The flip came on Santana's second homer of the game -- a two-run shot to right-center field in the third. It put his team up, 6-0, in a game it would go on to win, 11-4. The Tourists' second baseman had three total hits and five RBIs.