LOS ANGELES — Because the third-oldest energetic ballpark in Main League Baseball, Dodger Stadium is crammed with shows celebrating the wealthy historical past of one of the storied franchises within the sport.
And from time to time, a visiting participant does one thing so notable that it is price recording for posterity.
As of Thursday, Kyle Schwarber is one in every of them. Simply at some point after the Phillies’ slugger launched a moonshot of a house run off Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Recreation 3 of the Nationwide League Division Sequence, the Dodgers put in a plaque commemorating the Statcast-projected 455-foot blast round the place it landed past the Proper Subject Pavilion seats.
By giving Schwarber a plaque, the Dodgers have acknowledged him as one in every of a handful of gamers who’ve hit a house run out of Dodger Stadium. The others are Willie Stargell (Pirates, 1969 and ’73), Mike Piazza (1997, Dodgers), Mark McGwire (1999, Cardinals), Giancarlo Stanton (2015, Marlins) and Fernando Tatis Jr. (2021, Padres).
Schwarber’s majestic blast to proper area cleared the seating bowl, however hit off the highest of the pavilion roof. Even so, the Dodgers determined that it certified as leaving the ballpark, bearing in mind the renovations in recent times which have modified the structure within the space behind the outfield pavilions.
That makes Schwarber solely the second left-handed hitter to perform the feat, becoming a member of Stargell. Each are the one ones who’ve accomplished it out to proper area.
Shohei Ohtani was very practically the primary to affix Stargell in that regard in July 2024, when he clubbed a projected 473-foot shot to proper that stands because the second-longest homer at Dodger Stadium within the Statcast period (since 2015), second solely to Stanton’s 475 footer that left the yard. However Ohtani’s huge blast didn’t clear the pavilion roof, one of many group’s standards.
It might be solely a matter of time till Ohtani has a plaque of his personal on the market. However for now, Schwarber and Stargell are in an unique membership inside an unique membership.
