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This Murakami home run was hit out, at 49 degrees and 103.6 MPH, which disputes this post Regardless, there were only two HR - at any exit velocity - that were hit at 49° or greater this season. Reddit as a whole is currently freaking out about this and is largely wrong in doing so.

Tommy has the Exit velo and launch angle chart from Baseball Savant memorized. That's how he knew that ball should have been out.

Taylor should be the ace of the rotation next year. They could trade for a young pitcher; but the prices are usually inflated. No rents; no Phillies castoffs - none of that sort of thing.

Not to mention it was probably going foul. Hitter certainly didn’t react like he hit a homer. Pham probably doesn’t pimp that ball at all.

The interview must not have included this portion, “we won but that would have given us a blow out and changed how we use our pitchers so it mattered.”

It's actually pretty hard to get that LA over the fence FWIW

Wow - that's a pretty high threshold for closing the roof IMO.

A different team

Brewers close it at 65 degrees. Tonight was colder than that. It would have been closed.

MLB likes to have roofs closed during the postseason. If this were a regular season game, they probably have the roof open - the temperature was mild and it looks like a chance of light showers in the area. Crazy that this hasn't happened before....but I bet 70% of Brewers games are played with the roof open.

Based on Statcast's batting data (speed and launch angle predictions) and the general consensus among fans, if it were in 28 or 29 other stadiums without such low roof interference, the ball would definitely fly directly out and over the home run wall. It could even be a "moonshot" that flew out of the entire field. Padres fans (including fans of other teams) have complained on social media about this bizarre ending of being "beaten by the stadium hardware." of course it provides a considerable advantage to the team with the fewest homers in mlb lol

Everyone agreed to the ground rules. But now we know they're bullshit lol.

You answered your own question. Acuna is still on the roster as a pinch runner and has played CF.

The Padres should sue the MLB.

Woof... why are they even playing with the roof closed? This is going to stir up some serious s%*#.

Padres got robbed unless you can prove it was somehow curving leftward...with that launch angle, it was going way way out. Came almost straight down at a 10-15 degree angle. 105.3 ev and 49 degree launch angle

Three home teams won just like the wildcard round. The road team…your Chicago White Sox.

Yeah I'm not 100% certain you can project the distance on it, but the fact that the grounds rule is that it's in play is ridiculous. It needs to be like the way it is in Tampa. If it hits a certain part of the roof it is a homer. So many ways people can get robbed by those rules.

Wild. Pham no longer has the unluckiest non-HR today I guess? Though with that height it might have drifted foul anyway

105 off the bat but 49 degrees launch angle. They called him out. I think there's a good chance that goes out cause it went 325 feet despite hitting the railing.

Wow France hit the railing. That might be a homer too.

That was Hideki Godzilla Matsui.

Burke??? where else can Grant Taylor go except for the official closer's role?

Schulz and Hagen have to be in the mix. Taylor will probably be a middle guy, but I don’t know if he sticks around for that. Martin Schulz Smith Kay Castillo

But he knew he has to stay celibate for Sean