'One of my best swings ever': Bees' Jo Adell homer sets an all-time record

SALT LAKE CITY — There are moonshots and then there's what Jo Adell did Tuesday night, which the baseball world is still buzzing over.

Down 11-8 with two runners on in the bottom of the eighth inning, Adell got the green light to swing on a 3-0 pitch in the Salt Lake Bees' game against the Sugar Land Space Cowboys. Sugar Land hurler Austin Hansen tossed an 84 mph slider that ended up right over the plate, and Adell got all of it.

Adell ripped the ball to the picnic tables set up several yards from the left-center wall, a staggering 514 feet from home plate. It's the longest home run ever measured in either major league or minor league baseball since MLB introduced Statcast in 2015. His blast bested the previous record of 505 feet set in 2019 by Nomar Maraz, who played for the Texas Rangers at the time.

"I happened to get a pitch that was over the plate, and I put probably one of my best swings ever on it," Adell told MLB.com after the game.

The homer was featured on ESPN's "SportsCenter" Tuesday night and made the rounds across many baseball-centric online outlets.

Interestingly enough, it wasn't Adell's hardest-hit ball this season. The former top Angels prospect drilled a 117.2-mph home run during a game with the big league club earlier this month, the second-hardest-hit home run by an Angel since Statcast was implemented. His homer Tuesday only measured at 113.6 mph off the bat.

Adell's homer also gave him a minor league-leading 20 homers on top of his 50 RBIs in 61 games this season. Earlier this year, he told KSL.com that he credits his success to a different mindset and workout routine between games. He's only appeared in one game with the Angels so far this year, in which he hit that 117 mph homer.

In case you're curious, New York Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton (121.7 mph) still holds the record for the hardest-hit ball in the Statcast era. He and his teammate Aaron Judge actually hold 13 of the 16 hardest-hit balls since 2015, according to MLB.com.

The website also compiled a bunch of memorable pre-Statcast-era dingers, which are unofficially longer home runs in baseball history. But, for now, the longest home run on record belongs to Adell in Salt Lake City.

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