It's hard to launch a home run further than Shohei Ohtani hit his 30th

Kyle Madson

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 Not many players are capable of hitting a ball as hard as Shohei Ohtani did in Sunday's game against the Red Sox. His 30th home run of the season went an estimated 473 feet, and gave Los Angeles a 6-2 lead over Boston. 

According to Baseball Savant it Ohtani's 20th home run of the year that would be a home run in all 30 parks. That's MLB's best mark. He's also now just four behind Yankees slugger Aaron Judge for the MLB lead. 

The 473-foot homer was the second-longest of the year for Ohtani and tied for Judge's longest of the season. Ohtani's 476-foot shot in Colorado was the longest in baseball this year before Giants outfielder Jorge Soler hit a 478-footer in Colorado on Sunday.

Still, 473 feet is tied for the third-longest homer in baseball this season. And that's an extremely impressive feat even for Ohtani. 

Kyle Madson

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Kyle Madson neither likes writing about himself nor writing in the third person. Nevertheless, he persists. While Kyle has spent most of his writing career covering the NFL’s Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers, he’s never lost the love of baseball that has resided in the deepest recesses of his soul since he began playing T-ball at 4 years old (no matter how hard John Fisher has tried). Aside from writing, Kyle also hosts a radio show, the Insiders, with James Ham on ESPN 1320 in Sacramento. When he’s not being a sports dork, Kyle loves being a normal dork and traveling, visiting museums, diving further into K-Pop fandom (#SKZ) and hanging out with his wife and cats. Don’t follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @KyleAMadson.