Japanese Baseball Player Hits Ball Onto Roof

A baseball player in japan did something that old school twins fans can relate to when he hit a ball into the roof of the tokyo dome.

Japanese baseball player hits ball onto roof.

After the game billy williams a coach with the cubs at the time told the chicago tribune it was the longest ball he d ever seen hit. Japan won sunday s game 12 10 to improve to 3 1 in the four game series that included two games against mexico and is a tune up for next year s world baseball classic. Sammy sosa has hit the building but nobody had hit it onto the roof. Shohei otani is his name and he blasted a ball into what appears to be an open spot in the roof.

Tatis is only the second player on record to homer onto the roof joining former teammate hunter renfroe who did so twice. Fabled japanese young gun shohei otani is widely touted as the most prolific player since the legendary babe ruth. So when the 22 year old slugged a baseball through the roof of the tokyo dome. A 127 metre hit in 2012 by martin guptill at westpac stadium in wellington in a t20i against south africa comes from trajectory tracking technology.

When he called it quits at 37 he had just 441 hits in 1 812 at bats with only six home runs and 206 runs batted in. On may 4 1984. Other claims like a 128 metre hit by kieron pollard have only weak video evidence there are however some giant hits that are more credible. Ok so long story short this baseball was hit really hard.

The ball hit the roof of the stand about 105 metres horizontal distance from the bat and could easily. Wbsc global jpn mex ned series 2016 at the tokyo dome shohei ohtani otani. Tatis blast set the table for a frantic finish to game 1 of thursday s doubleheader a 10 7 walk off win. 14 1942 the.

Otani also hit 322 416.