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With his 455-foot bomb in Game 3 of the NLDS against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies star Kyle Schwarber joined of the list of the longest MLB postseason home runs of the Statcast Era.
But it also wasn’t Schwarber’s first (or second, or third!) time making the list. We took a look at where else he ranks as well as which unsuspecting player tops the list in our latest countdown.
Longest MLB Playoff Home Runs Of The Statcast Era
Sure, we’ve all heard stories about Babe Ruth launching baseballs to the moon, or Willie Mays sending balls out of Candlestick Park.
But thanks to technology, beginning in 2015, we were able to give actual, accurate distances on home runs. Since that point, there have been some absolutely gigantic homers hit in the postseason.
However, 10 (11, actually, as you’ll see) home runs stand out above the rest as the loudest, farthest, and most impressive dingers of the Statcast Era.
So, without further ado…
T10) Ronald Acuna (2019) and Kyle Schwarber (2025) – 455 Feet
With the Philadelphia Phillies facing elimination, down 2-0 in the series and 1-0 in the game, Kyle Schwarber launched an absolute nuke deep into the night in Game 3 of the NLDS against the Dodgers on Wednesday night.
The home run traveled 455 feet and tied the game at 1-1. Philadelphia went on to win 8-2, capped by a second Schwarbomb in the top of the eighth inning, keeping their season alive and giving Phillies fans a bit of hope in a series that had felt lost.
But his big blast is only go enough for a tie for 10th on this list thanks to rival Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves. In Game 1 of the 2019 NLDS against the St. Louis Cardinals, Acuna launched a 455-foot bomb to center field off Cards closer Carlos Martinez to pull his team within one.
Unfortunately for the Braves, it wasn’t enough as St. Louis won the game 7-6 on the way to a 3-2 series victory.
9) Giancarlo Stanton (2020) – 458 Feet
Giancarlo Stanton regained his peak form in the 2020 COVID-affected MLB Playoffs. While the Yankees lost in five games to the Tampa Bay Rays, Stanton hit four home runs in the series.
The most impressive among them came in Game 2, when he destroyed a 97-mile-per-hour fastball from Tyler Glasnow, sending it 458 feet to left-center field at Petco Park, which hosted the neutral-site series.
The ball left the bat at 118.4 mph, the highest exit velocity for a postseason home run tracked by Statcast.
8) Kyle Schwarber (2015) – 459 feet
Hey look, there’s Kyle Schwarber again!
While the Cubs finally ended the curse of the billy goat in 2016, the year prior was a bit more difficult. Chicago was swept in the NLCS against the New York Mets.
In Game 1, Mets ace Matt Harvey pitched a gem, but he was finally knocked out of the game when Schwarber launched a high fastball 459 feet to right-center field. It was Schwarber’s fourth of five homers in a remarkable rookie postseason run.
T6) Freddie Freeman (2019), Freddie Freeman (2021) – 460 Feet
The aforementioned 459-foot home run by Ronald Acuna Jr. was just the first of two home runs allowed by Cardinals closer Carlos Martinez in a tenuous Game 1 appearance in the 2019 NLDS.
The second, another moon shot, came from Freddie Freeman, who hit a 109.7-mile-per-hour shot into the pool in straightaway center field that cut the St. Louis’ lead to just one. Somehow, Martinez still escaped with the save.
HOWEVER.
That was not the most important 460-foot home run of Freeman’s postseason career. That honor came in the 2021 World Series, when the Braves star absolutely destroyed a solo shot off Astros starter Framber Valdez in the third inning of Game 5, breaking a 4-4 tie.
Houston went on to win the game and extend the series, but Atlanta rebounded in 2021 to win its first World Series since 1995.
5) Kyle Schwarber (2023) – 461 Feet
If you haven’t noticed, Kyle Schwarber is extremely adept at hitting baseballs very, very far.
In 2023, Schwarber hit an astounding five home runs in the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The last of those five homers was the most impressive: a 114.1-mile-per-hour, 461-foot moonshot off Arizona’s Zac Gallen, that gave him 11 NLCS home runs all-time, surpassing Albert Pujols’ prior record of 10.
Philadelphia won the game 6-1 to move within one victory of a second straight World Series. But the Phillies then lost two games at home to drop the series in heartbreaking fashion.
4) Gary Sanchez (2018) – 479 Feet
Former New York Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez didn’t always make contact. But when he did, the ball tended to go a long way.
Such was the case in the top of the seventh inning of Game 2 against the rival Boston Red Sox. Sanchez clobbered a 479-foot bomb in the top of the 8th inning to put the Yankees up 6-1, cementing a victory.
But Boston would get the last laugh, winning the series 3-1 en route to a World Series victory.
3) Luis Robert (2020) – 487 Feet
Sadly, Luis Robert and the Chicago White Sox haven’t done a ton of winning, the Robert’s career has since stagnated.
But in Game 3 of the 2020 AL Wild Card series against the Oakland A’s, the 23-year-old became the youngest AL player to homer in a winner-take-all postseason game since Mickey Mantle in 1952, launching a preposterous 487-foot home run into empty left field seats off of Mike Fiers.
2) Kyle Schwarber (2022) – 488 Feet
Okay, we promise this is the final Kyle Schwarber appearance.
In Game 1 of the 2022 NLCS against the San Diego, Padres starter Yu Darvish was rolling through the first five innings. But to start the sixth, Darvish left a curveball hanging in the middle of the plate and Schwarber made no mistake.
The Phillies left absolutely tattooed the ball for a 120-mile-per-hour, 488-foot home run deep into the right field seats. Philadelphia went on to win the game and the series, advancing to the World Series for the first time since 2009.
1) Wilson Contreras (2017) – 491 Feet
It’s not that Wilson Contreras doesn’t have power. After all, he has 20-plus home runs in six different seasons. But seeing him atop this list is certainly a little jarring, at least until you watch the video.
Trailing 3-0 in the series, Contreras gave the Wrigley Field crowd some life when he absolutely launched a fastball from Dodgers pitcher Alex Wood into orbit, sending it soaring high off the video board above the left-field bleachers.
According to Statcast, the ball went a jaw-dropping 491 feet, the longest playoff homer in the Statcast Era.
Chicago won the game 3-2, keeping its season alive, but eventually dropped the series in five.