When Minnesota Twins slugger Miguel Sano makes solid contact with a pitch, he tends to crush the ball.
Fans at Tropicana Field on Sunday witnessed that when he became the first player to hit a ball off the roof there, which he did in the first inning of the game.
With runners on the corners, Sano got under a pitch and skied it over 200 feet into the air. The ball hit off the roof, and Evan Longoria managed to get underneath it and made a nice catch anyway.
Sano's fly out—the first batted ball to hit the roof at the Trop—struck approx. 210 feet above the playing surface. pic.twitter.com/qpGNsM0AgB
— Tampa Bay Rays (@RaysBaseball) August 7, 2016
Sano clearly wasn’t interested in a sacrifice fly there. He was looking to hit a three-run bomb.
