The 100th ‘Splash’ home run hit at Oracle Park, home of the Major League Baseball’s San Francisco Giants.
San Francisco’s Ramont Wade Jr. hit a home run as the lead batter fell into the sea behind the right wall at the bottom of the first inning, 0-0, in a home game against the Baltimore Orioles at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, USA today.먹튀검증
A home run that hits MacCovi Bay adjacent to Oracle Park is called a splash home run.
It means that a home run will splash into the water and fall.
On days when San Francisco home games are held, there are many fans waiting for the home run ball to land in canoes or yachts in the sea beyond the fence on the right side of the stadium.
However, the name is different depending on which team player hit it.
The San Francisco club posts the creator of the iconic splash home run and the pitcher who hit the home run on its homepage.
Looking at this, when a San Francisco player hits it, it is classified as a splash home run, and when it is hit by a player from the opposing team, it is simply recorded as a ‘home run driven by McCorbie’.
Wade Jr.’s home run was the 100th splash home run by a player from San Francisco at the stadium, which opened in 2000.
The stadium has been called Oracle Park since 2019 after going through Pacific Bell Park (2000-2003), SBC Park (2004-2005), AT&T Park (2006-2018).
Oracle Park is an advantageous place for left-handed hitters to the extent that it is called the stadium built for Barry Bonds, the ‘home run king’ who played an active part in San Francisco’s signature hitter.
It is a left-right asymmetrical field, and the distance from the home is rather short as the fence from the middle right to the right foul pole is designed in a straight line rather than a semicircle.
A left-handed hitter who pulls is more likely to hit a splash home run.
Bonds hit 35 homers in his career, including making the first to 9th splash home run of all time in succession.
Brandon Belt, who played for a long time in San Francisco and transferred to the Toronto Blue Jays this year, is hitting 10 and is recording a double-digit splash home run with Bonds.
Fifty-five home runs hit by opponents other than San Francisco were produced by the previous day.
On August 3, 2020, when Choo Shin-soo (now SSG Landers) was playing for the Texas Rangers, Choi Hee-seop, the KIA Tigers’ remaining coach, hit one each on May 1, 2004, when he was with the Florida Marlins (Miami Marlins).