If you like mammoth dwelling runs, then you definitely in all probability ought to have Josh Bell in your radar by now.
In case you don’t know a lot concerning the Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman, he’s having a monster season to date — and he’s completely destroying baseballs.
Bell jacked his 15th dwelling run of the season on Wednesday, sending a ball into the Alleghany River past proper area at PNC Park on the fly. Yes, on the fly.
How typically does that occur? Uh, not very. This was simply the fifth dwelling run to hit the river within the air within the 19-year historical past of PNC, and two of them belong to Bell. Unsurprisingly, he’s the one one to attain that feat greater than as soon as.
Here’s the bomb:
It truthfully will get extra spectacular the extra instances you watch it.
His first river blast could have been much more spectacular, nevertheless, carrying 472-feet (!!!) again on May 8.
Think about it, three dwelling runs had reached the river earlier than this season. Bell did it twice in May, and the month isn’t even over.
Mercy.
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