Welcome back to "Baseball," starring dingers.
Opening Day 2018 featured a theme as akin to 2017's prevailing storyline: home runs, dingers, taters, longballs, slamma lamma ding dongs. Unlike a home run in the middle of Rays vs. Tigers in June, these homers had meaning. (Sorry, Rays and Tigers fans.)
So here are a few of today's righteous dingers and epic moonshots in an Opening Day that was full of more explosions than a Michael Bay movie with an unlimited budget.
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Giancarlo Stanton (1)
Opponent:Blue JaysDistance:426 feetExit velocity:117 mph
The most noteworthy stat coming out of this line-drivedinger is the exit velocity: it's the hardest hit opposite field home run ever tracked by Statcast, if you're into that sort of thing.
If you're not, it's simple: laser shot.
Giancarlo Stanton off LHP J.A. Happ - 117.3 mph, 20 degrees (426 ft Home Run)91.7 mph Two-Seamer @ (T1)
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Giancarlo Stanton? More like Gonecarlo Stanton.
Sporting News (@sportingnews) Giancarlo Stanton (2)
Opponent: Blue JaysDistance:434 feetExit velocity:109.4 mph
Not to be outdone byhimself, Stanton made sure to let the folks in Toronto know that the first was no fluke. Where the first one lacked in height, this one didn't. This was an absolutebomb.
Giancarlo Stanton off RHP Tyler Clippard - 109.4 mph, 27 degrees (434 ft Home Run)78.2 mph Changeup @ (T9)
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Looks like that trade is working out.
MLB (@MLB) Adam Jones
Opponent: TwinsDistance:392 feetExit velocity:107.2 mph
Adam Jones off RHP Fernando Rodney - 107.2 mph, 21 degrees (392 ft Home Run)92.0 mph Two-Seamer @ (B11)
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WALK-OFF HOME RUN BY ADAM JONES ON
Sporting News (@sportingnews) George Springer
Opponent:RangersDistance: 364 feetExit velocity: 104.6 mph
What better way to start the season for the World Series MVP than with a #SPRINGERDINGER? Maybe a #SPRINGERDINGER vs. their Texas rival. is probably happy about it.
Springer is the first player in baseball history to lead off back-to-back seasons with a home run, via the tweet below.
George Springer off LHP Cole Hamels - 104.6 mph, 25 degrees (364 ft Home Run)90.3 mph Four-Seamer @ (T1)
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The first player EVER to lead off back-to-back seasons with a homer., George Khalil Herbert Jerseys Springer.
MLB (@MLB) Matt Davidson (3)
Opponent:White SoxDistance:1,237 feet, combinedExit velocities:114 mph, 115.1mph, 113.9 mph
Davidson became the fourth player in MLB history to knock three taters on Opening Day, and he did it in a big way.
Never before in the Statcast Era has a player notched three 110-plus mph home runs. Impre sive showing en route to a White Sox rout of the Royals.
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White Sox Talk (@NBCSWhiteSox) Ian Happ
Opponent:MarlinsDistance:392 feetExit velocity:107 mph
Shout out to Ian Happ for not making us wait, like at all, for our very first home run of the major-league season.
Happ took the first pitch he saw and deposited it into the Marlins Park seats
Ian Happ off RHP Jose Urena - 107.0 mph, 31 degrees (392 ft Home Run)95.5 mph Four-Seamer @ (T1)
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Ian Happ hits a home run on the FIRST PITCH Germain Ifedi Jerseys OF THE MLB SEASON!
Sporting News (@sportingnews) Eduardo Nunez
Opponent:RaysDistance:UhExit velocity:Not great?
Much like baseball players, home runs call in all shapes and sizes. Nunez proved that today.
He didn't smash the ball, but hedidend up touching 'em all and losing his helmet in the proce s, in true Nunezian style.
Eduardo Nunez hit an inside-the-park home run!
Sporting News (@sportingnews) Nick Markakis
Opponent:PhilliesDistance:427 feetExit velocity:103.3 mph
Nick Markakis, good job.
Today's three-run walk-off job was the first walk-off home run of Markakis' career. He only hit eight into the seats last season, so this is Rodney Adams Jerseys a pretty good start for the 34-year-old in 2018.
Nick Markakis off RHP Hector Neris - 103.3 mph, 25 degrees (427 ft Home Run)87.4 mph Splitter @ (B9)
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and a fireworks show? Thats legit.
MLB (@MLB) Yadier Molina
Opponent:MetsDistance:371 feetExit velocity:99 mph
Yadi ties Albert Pujols' franchise record for most Opening Day home runs at four, and he did it in his 14th consecutive Opening Day start. That's quite the number for the veteran catcher.
Not only did he hit one, but it came on a 97 mph Noah Syndergaardfastball, and it just tagged the left field foul pole.
Yadier Molina off RHP Noah Syndergaard - 99.7 mph, 31 degrees (371 ft Home Run)97.7 mph Four-Seamer @ (T2)
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14 straight starts for .He knows what to do.
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