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Ceddanne Rafaela can simply thank her lucky stars that he played his home games in Fenway Park.
Rafaela used the Pesky post to her advantage on Wednesday afternoon to raise her Boston Red Sox to an 11-9 victory against the Los Angeles Angels.
On the first ground, he saw at the bottom of the ninth, a quick ball of 97 mi / h, Rafaela swrooved and stole one on the line of the right field.
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The Boston Red Sox Voltger, Ceddanne Rafaela, is congratulated after hitting a winning circuit against the Los Angeles Angels during the ninth round at Fenway Park. (Images David Butler II-Imagn)
But with the pole for lack only 302 feet of the marble, it was enough to be a two -round circuit.
The ball has covered only 308 feet, the shortest blow in the Statcast era (since 2015). Obviously, it would have been just a home run at Fenway.
The three shortest circuits ever followed by Statcast were all at Fenway Park, and Rafaela’s shot is the third record ever recorded.
Brockton fans sit next to the annoying post during their match against Bridgewater-Raynham in Fenway Park on Wednesday, November 23, 2022. (Marc Vasconcellos / The Enterprise / USA Today Network)
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The Angels blew 4-0, 7-5, 8-7 and 9-8, Rafael Devers bouncing a helicopter between the gloves of the second basic player Chris Taylor and the Zach Neto stop stop behind the second base to attach it 9-9 to the eighth.
The angels went to 28-33, while the SOXs now have 30-34.
Each of the first three times that the Red Sox marked, replied Los Angeles with his own races. But after walking Mike Trout to lead the ninth, Cooper Criswell (1-0) brought out the following three strikers to give Boston a chance to do so.
The Boston Red Sox Voltger, Ceddanne Rafaela, hits a winning home run against the Los Angeles Angels during the ninth round at Fenway Park. (Images David Butler II-Imagn)
The post, of course, bears the name of Johnny Pesky, who has only reached 17 career circuits, but six of them occurred just around the post.
