Joey Gallo crushes 439-foot home run against Clayton Kershaw

Tom Gatto

Joey Gallo crushes 439-foot home run against Clayton Kershaw image

Joey Gallo Does. Not. Care.

That's Clayton Kershaw the Rangers rookie is taking halfway up the right-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium. Kid's 21, been in the Show for just over two weeks.

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The reaction inside the Rangers' dugout is a good indication of how impressive that homer was.

Even Yasiel Puig stood and stared. He probably wanted to do a bat flip in admiration.

ESPN reports the home run was indeed a tape-measure job:

Tom Gatto

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.