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

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.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by chw42

Wild. Pham no longer has the unluckiest non-HR today I guess?

Though with that height it might have drifted foul anyway

Just now, Autumn Dreamin said:

Wild. Pham no longer has the unluckiest non-HR today I guess?

Though with that height it might have drifted foul anyway

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.

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

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

Edited 53 minutes ago53 min by caulfield12

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

The Padres should sue the MLB.

37 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

Except none of them are plus CFers.

Then you have Acuna.

Austin Hays four years in a row in the playoffs for 4 different teams is Pham-like.

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

4 minutes ago, Green Line said:

The Padres should sue the MLB.

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

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

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14 minutes ago, pettie4sox said:

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

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.

3 minutes ago, 77 Hitmen said:

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.

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

Just now, JTB said:

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

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

32 minutes ago, caulfield12 said:

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

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

3 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

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

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.

12 minutes ago, JTB said:

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.

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

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.