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The Astros Keep On Mashing Grand Slams

The Houston Astros did the country a great service and put a damper on the Yankees’ Derek Jeter ceremony with several big dingers in the first-inning yesterday, including a grand slam from Alex Bregman.

Mark Trumbo Cranks A Homer Off A Shoulder-High Pitch

Orioles right fielder and 2016 home run champ Mark Trumbo has had a slow start this season, but he’s still big and strong, which is why he can do this to a 91-mph Gio Gonzalez pitch up around his collarbone:

Marcell Ozuna Sent This Pitch To Goddamn Neptune

Marcell Ozuna is NOT a fan of the Rays’ 2011 AL Wild Card banner and he will do anything he can to see it die.

Yankees' Aaron Judge Sows Destruction During Batting Practice

Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge, who may not know his own strength, is accidentally breaking stuff. Today during batting practice, in the major league equivalent of a kid breaking a window while playing in the front yard, Judge blasted a tater into a terrace at Yankee Stadium and destroyed a TV.

Manny Machado Gets Revenge Against Chris Sale For Throwing Behind Him By Smacking A Towering Homer

The Boston Red Sox have been mad at Manny Machado for over a week now, ever since he spiked Dustin Pedroia while sliding into second base. They tried to plunk him in retaliation the day after, but that attempt went sideways and Matt Barnes got tossed without even getting to hit Machado.

Manny Machado Bashes Huge Homer Over The Green Monster, Takes His Time Admiring It

Manny Machado, who just a few days ago crushed the longest homer of the season so far when he sent a ball flying over the restaurant in Yankees’ center field, hit another major tater at Fenway tonight, sending Rick Porcello’s 2-2 pitch well over the Green Monster.

Bryce Harper Sent A Dinger To The Forest

Bryce Harper sent a Jordan Lyles fastball to the tree-laden Rockies bullpen this afternoon. He stood and admired the shot for a second, as he should have. There’s no choice but to marvel at a perfect bat-on-ball THWACK like this one.

Homer-Smacking Eric Thames Isn't Worried About Drug Tests Because He Has "A Lot Of Blood And Urine"

Home run hero Eric Thames spent last week abusing Reds pitching and mashing big taters, and he picked right back up where he left off this week, smacking three more cuadrangulares in the past two games. He now has eight home runs in six games against the Reds and 11 on the year.

Phillies Smack Three Honkin' Taters In A Row

The Phillies, who haven’t finished above .500 since 2011, are actually making the early part of this season interesting—or at least, entertaining—for their fans. Granted: it’s still April, there’s essentially no chance of them catching the Nationals at any point over the next five months, and their weekend sweep of…

Travis Shaw Crushed The Hardest Dinger Of The Season So Far

Travis Shaw got things started for the Brewers in the first inning today with a monster three-run dong that flew into the second deck:

White Sox Witness Large Man's Large Dong

Big New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge made great use of an ill-advised Dylan Covey pitch, launching an intercontinental home run 448 feet into the night off the Rule 5 pick, who was making his second major-league start.

Eric Thames Won't Stop Crushing Big Dingers

Last we heard from Eric Thames, the former MLB washout who went to the KBO and flexed all over the league, there was cautious optimism that he could carry over some of his form to Milwaukee and maybe make the mustachioed Brewers mascot guy slide down the home run slide a few times in the major leagues. As it turns…

Anthony Rizzo's Homer Exploded Someone's Beer

Just like that Marlins guy last night, Cubs fans in the bleachers got wet trying to catch a dinger this afternoon. Unfortunately, this was because Anthony Rizzo’s first-inning dong exploded a fan’s wayward beer.

Marlins Fan Goes Swimming For Giancarlo Stanton Home Run Ball

Giancarlo Stanton accounted for the first four runs the Marlins scored tonight with a pair of two-run dongers. His first was a long, arching bomb that peaked at 148 feet above the field before landing over the center field wall. The latter dinger was utterly unlike the first, as Stanton smacked a hard line drive that…

Yasiel Puig Might Be Good Again

It’s the first week of the baseball season and you know what that means: time to get excited by hyperbolic extrapolations of small sample sizes. Madison Bumgarner is the next Shohei Otani! The White Sox are going to play .500 ball! And Yasiel Puig is back, baby.

Check Out This Mammoth Cricket Dong

Chris Lynn is absolutely raking for his Kolkata Knight Riders squad in today’s Indian Premier League bout against Gujarat Lions, but nothing sparked the Lynn-Sanity (and yes, that’s what they’re calling it) more than this massive six that the Australian clubbed into the second deck.

George Springer Has Zero Regard For Life Of Baseball, Smashes Dinger

George Springer ended last night’s marathon game with a walk-off homer, and he led off tonight in similar fashion. Per Statcast, this poor baseball went a ridiculous 454 feet:

Tim Tebow Kills Baseball In First At-Bat; Ball Passes Over Outfielders' Heads For Home Run

Tim Tebow, author and former college football quarterback, kicked off his time with the class-A Columbia Fireflies this evening with a bang. The motivational speaker stepped up to the plate against the Augusta Greenjackets and socked a dinger in his very first at-bat.

Eric Thames Is Back In The U.S. And Ready To Mash Big Taters

Eric Thames never managed to stick in the majors. He got 633 at-bats between the Blue Jays and Mariners from 2011-2012, hit a few dingers, and then went to play ball in Korea. There, he became a damn folk hero, winning the MVP award, becoming the first KBO player to join the 40-40 club, and just generally knocking the…

Francisco Lindor Redeems Himself By Obliterating The Rangers With Dingers

Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor is one of the best defenders in the game, yet he committed a critical error in tonight’s game against the Rangers. In the fifth inning, Lindor handled a routine grounder from Shin-Soo Choo and overthrew his first baseman, allowing two runs to score instead of ending the inning. The…

Carlos Gomez Smacks Mammoth Dinger

The Cleveland Indians, last seen ceding a 3-1 World Series lead to the Cubs, are back at it this evening and things are not going well thus far. Corey Kluber gave up a second-inning dinger to new horse owner Rougned Odor, then shortly afterwards, allowed Carlos Gomez to murder one of his pitches and send it to the…

Jake Arrieta Jacks Longest-Ever Measured Dinger By A Pitcher

Jake Arrieta stepped up to the plate for the first time at spring training this afternoon and he promptly picked up where he left off last year, smashing a Zack Greinke pitch 465 feet off into the stands. This is the longest dinger by a pitcher in the Statcast-era. It would have been one of the 25 longest shots of the…

Giancarlo Stanton Cranks Huge Dinger, Gives U.S. The Lead

Giancarlo Stanton broke a 2-2 deadlock by ripping a massive two-run homer off the Dominican Republic’s Ervin Santana. How massive?

Skilled Baseball Man Shohei Otani Cracked A Big Ol' Dinger

Shohei Otani, the most interesting baseball player in the world, did not play at the World Baseball Classic this year, and that sucks. His absence deprived us of the chance to see one of the best hitters and pitchers in Japan in action on the world stage, so for now we’ll just have to settle for this big-ass dong…