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MLB: Branyan hits restaurant in center field at Yankee Stadium

9 bucks for a Yankee root beer float? I’d break a few windows too!

After going nearly two games without hitting a ball between the white lines at Yankee Stadium, Mariners first baseman Russell Branyan hit one where no else has gone.

Branyan took one of his husky swings at the first pitch he saw from right-handed reliever Alfredo Aceves in the ninth inning of the Mariners’ 8-4 win over the Yankees on Thursday night and drove the ball majestically to straightaway center field.

It had distance, it had height and it caromed off the dark glass protecting the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar, located above Monument Park, becoming the first player to hit the structure in the first season of the new stadium.

The Yankees apparently don’t measure opponent’s home runs, but this was a long one.

“That was majestic,” Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu said. “[Alex Rodriguez’s] was measured at 439 feet and this one went way beyond that one.”

...“I think that one is going to be hard to top in this ballpark,” Wakamatsu said.

Repoz Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:25 AM | 28 comment(s) Login to Bookmark
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1. bookbook Posted: July 03, 2009 at 04:55 AM (#3241186)

They don't measure opponents' home runs? Because the Yankees organization has no sense of the importance of the majestic history of baseball? - at least not when you can be petty and shortsighted instead.

If it were the Marlins, or something, I guess I'd understand

2. Dan The Mediocre Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:02 AM (#3241188)

If it were the Marlins, or something, I guess I'd understand

If it were the Marlins, they'd charge fans to learn how far it went.

3. Crashburn Alley Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:17 AM (#3241190)

Video

4. Shock Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:22 AM (#3241192)

Disgraceful.

5. Crashburn Alley Posted: July 03, 2009 at 05:55 AM (#3241199)

Will HitTrackerOnline.com have any data on the HR? I'd think that just because the Yankees don't measure the dingers doesn't mean HTO doesn't. And I'd much rather use HTO's numbers.

6. Obama Bomaye Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:07 AM (#3241203)

Well, I've been told that YES has the best production of any baseball telecast, but per #3's link their coverage of that HR sucked. Makes it look like that ball just crept over the CF fence.

I think HTO estimates a distance on every single HR. I'm sure most team measurements are somewhat fictional. I don't necessarily buy into HTO but I believe it's objective.

7. Phil Coorey. Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:52 AM (#3241210)

Do they keep score of the other teams??

8. Bhaakon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:53 AM (#3241218)

Mohegan Sun is a casino, correct? I'm rather surprised that sponsorship passed muster with the central office. There's plenty of alcohol advertising in parks, but I figured that overtly associating baseball with gambling was still anathema.

9. Earvin 'Gold Stars' Johnson Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:56 AM (#3241219)

You kidding? Half of the ads in Chase Field, it seems, are from the local casinos.

10. Petuniaviles Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:57 AM (#3241220)

That video is pretty pathetic.

11. Bhaakon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 08:04 AM (#3241221)

You kidding? Half of the ads in Chase Field, it seems, are from the local casinos.

12. Tripon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 08:07 AM (#3241223)

Really? Odd. I Can't think of any similar adverts in California. Indian casinos have plenty of radio spots, but I don't remember anything inside ballparks, and Nevada casinos don't advertise individually outside a few billboards near the border.

Dodgers and Angels have been running their pre and post game shows for about a week from a local Indian casino.

13. Bhaakon Posted: July 03, 2009 at 08:10 AM (#3241224)

I guess San Francisco is the last bastion of purity left in the game. Kenesaw Mountain Landis is rolling in his grave (mostly because of integration, but I digress).

14. Tike Redman's Shattered Dreams (shayborg) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 08:56 AM (#3241225)

That video is pretty pathetic.

Whoever cuts clips for MLB.com left out the replays where they show it actually hitting a few dozen feet up on that wall.

15. Joe Bivens, Idiot Posted: July 03, 2009 at 10:33 AM (#3241232)

7 HR's in the last two games there. What's the YTD total now? And the projection? Is it still 350? 160 were hit at the old YS last year.

16. RollingWave Posted: July 03, 2009 at 10:56 AM (#3241235)

127 I think, with 43 games left, the record is Coor field's 303.

Doesn't seem too likely to be broken.

17. Flynn Posted: July 03, 2009 at 11:39 AM (#3241239)

I'm almost certain the Giants and A's have run ads from Cache Creek Casino.

18. Drew (Primakov, Gungho Iguanas) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 12:14 PM (#3241246)

The Yankees apparently don’t measure opponent’s home runs.

If this is true, it is yet more evidence of what the team is building as the New Yankee Brand: corporate, arrogant, greedy, elitist. Unintentionally, there's an acronym in there -- maybe we can call the ballpark the CAGE.

19. Diamond Research Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:21 PM (#3241292)

Using Hittracker, it was 451.

20. Pasta-diving Jeter (jmac66) Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:24 PM (#3241294)

Do they keep score of the other teams??

there are other teams?!

21. Lassus Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:33 PM (#3241300)

Whoever cuts clips for MLB.com left out the replays where they show it actually hitting a few dozen feet up on that wall.

There's a time limit on those clips; I'd imagine that the replay showing that bit didn't make it until far after said time limit.

22. phatj Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:35 PM (#3241301)

Yeah, because showing him stroll around the bases was more important.

23. Crispix Attacks Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:37 PM (#3241303)

"one of his husky swings"? That doesn't sound right somehow.

Anyway, Branyan is the man.

24. Lassus Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:43 PM (#3241307)

Yeah, because showing him stroll around the bases was more important.

Well, the Gameday clips (which is what's linked) are cut and posted within about 90 seconds of the event happening; if you want to whine about not getting what you want, watch the highlights or the post-game later on and then complain.

25. Steve Treder Posted: July 03, 2009 at 02:55 PM (#3241316)

I'm almost certain the Giants and A's have run ads from Cache Creek Casino.

Constantly.

26. Philippe Posted: July 03, 2009 at 06:58 PM (#3241470)

The Expos, in their last sad years, had a huge ad for Golden Palace.com in the outfield, an online casino to boot, in addition to ads for the local Loto-Québec run Casino de Montréal.

27. Eric P. Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:03 PM (#3241475)

At least there haven't been any Condom Depot ads in MLB yet.

28. Justin 'The Cespedobear' T Posted: July 03, 2009 at 07:20 PM (#3241482)

The Jays announcer in today's game said Branyan's homer is "believed to be" the the only one to hit off that restaurant in center. Because with a park that has been around so long, we can only assume.

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