It’s been a rough season for Gio Urshela, who missed Friday’s game due to side effects from his COVID-19 vaccine and entered Sunday hitting .231 with just one extra-base hit in seven games.
And then, “the most happy fella” woke up.
After Brent Honeywell stymied the Yankees for two innings on Sunday, the Rays inserted Michael Wacha for the third inning, and he promptly walked Gary Sanchez to give the Yankees their first baserunner of the game. And then, Urshela unleashed this:
Per Statcast, that bomb to dead center came off Urshela’s bat at 108.1 miles per hour and traveled an estimated distance of 453 feet, estimated because it could only be stopped by the wall behind the center field fence.
It is the second-longest homer of Urshela's career, behind a 461-foot blast against Baltimore on Aug. 12, 2019.
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