Everything you didn’t know about home runs

Last year, the Orioles pushed back the left-field wall by 26 1/2 feet and raised the fences up from 7 feet, 4 inches, to 13 feet. It was clear that the changes would take home runs off the board, and they did—57, to be exact.

But it’s more than that. A lot more, because we immediately began to notice that a tremendous number of home runs were showing up like this one from Nick Senzel on Sunday, which easily cleared the fence in Oakland.

What, you might be asking, does a home run hit by a Cincinnati Red in Oakland, CA (see the video here) have anything to do with Baltimore? As the end of that video showed, Senzel’s home run would have been out of 29 of the 30 parks. Camden Yards is the 30th—and, as it turns out, that happens a lot. A lot.

Batted balls that would have been out of every park save one (2022-‘23)

BAL 427
COL 186
SF 155
BOS 78
DET 57
ARI 12
KC   10