Reggie Jackson says Judge's home run wasn't 469 feet
Aaron Judge hit a baseball Tuesday night that looked like it needed clearance from air traffic control. Statcast measured the New York Yankees captain's homer at 469 feet.
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Yankees Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson respectfully — and very vocally — disagrees.
New York Yankees Hall of Fame slugger looks out of the dugout during the 2019 Old Timers' Day at Yankee Stadium. © Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images
'I know what 500 feet feels like,' Jackson told YES Network's Meredith Marakovits before Wednesday night's game. He went on to explain if it hadn't hit the building where the Kansas City Royals house their Hall of Fame, that ball would have definitely cleared 500 feet.
And when Mr. October says a home run felt like 500 feet, you at least got to take it into consideration. This is a man who hit baseballs into light towers. Who treated 1970s pitchers like they were throwing Wiffle balls. Reggie knows moonshots — and this one apparently made his inner seismograph twitch.
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The blast in question came off the bat at 114.9 mph and crashed off the facade of the Royals Hall of Fame in left-center. Statcast gave it the 469-foot label, but the ball may have lost a few feet of travel time thanks to a premature collision with a wall, which was sporting some patching on it Wednesday.
Judge didn't seem bothered. He flipped his bat, put his head down, and headed back to work.
The Yankees slugger has a habit of humbling Statcast's tape measure. Tuesday's launch may have been one of those. Reggie seemed convinced. And honestly, we're not betting against the man who once hit a ball completely out of Tiger Stadium.
Statcast is great and we love the information, but Reggie knows home runs. So, we're going to go with the Yankees legend on this one.
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Related: Aaron Judge's 469-Foot Blast Wasn't Even Close to Yankees Slugger's Longest
This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 12, 2025, where it first appeared.
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