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Pete Rose now eligible for Hall of Fame after years of ineligibility<\/p>\n

USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale discusses Pete Rose now being eligible for the Hall of Fame and what it means for the steroid era players.<\/p>\n

Sports Pulse<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> outfielder Oneil Cruz<\/a> entered Sunday holding the record for the hardest-hit ball in the Statcast era.<\/p>\n

He’s broken his own record.<\/p>\n

Cruz launched a ball 122.9 miles per hour off the bat and into the Allegheny River for a solo home run in Sunday’s home contest against the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>. The ball left the stadium in quick fashion to get Pittsburgh on the scoreboard, although the Pirates lost the contest 6-5<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Statcast era began in 2015. The previous record, held by Cruz, was a single on Aug. 24, 2022 against the Atlanta Braves<\/a> that came off the bat at 122.4 mph.<\/p>\n

“I connected really well. It feels even better just to know that it’s the hardest-hit ball in the history of Statcast,”\u00a0Cruz said postgame through an interpreter.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh manager Don Kelly joked he was glad the hit went out of the stadium because “if that would’ve been into the stands, that thing is flying.”<\/p>\n

Hardest-hit balls in Statcast era<\/p>\n

Even though he didn’t make his MLB debut until 2021, Cruz now owns the two hardest-hit balls in the past 10 years. Cruz owns three of the top 10 hardest-hit balls in the Statcast era, a list that is heavily occupied by him and the New York Yankees<\/a>‘ Giancarlo Stanton.<\/p>\n

Although these are the hardest hits in the Statcast era, not all of them had the same result. Here are the fastest speeds off the bat since 2015:<\/p>\n

Oneil Cruz: 122.9 mph, May 25, 2025 (home run)Oneil Cruz: 122.4 mph, Aug. 24, 2022 (single)Giancarlo Stanton: 122.2 mph, Aug. 9, 2021 (double play)Giancarlo Stanton: 122.2 mph, Oct. 1, 2017 (single)Giancarlo Stanton: 121.7 mph, Aug. 9, 2018 (home run)Oneil Cruz: 121.5 mph, May 21, 2024 (double)Giancarlo Stanton: 121.3 mph, July 25, 2020 (home run)Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.: 121.2 mph, Sept. 2, 2023 (home run)Giancarlo Stanton: 121.1 mph, Aug. 5 2018 (single)Aaron Judge: 121.1 mph, June 20, 2017 (home run)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pete Rose now eligible for Hall of Fame after years of ineligibility USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale discusses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[191,46,5,192,136,1166,270,310,843,59,4,298,315,306,319,292,62,169,5339,1330,300,316,10,776,64,1625,301,303,302,318,185,317,271,305,299,173,417,1626,304,142,293],"class_list":{"0":"post-55369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-braves","12":"tag-brewers","13":"tag-cruz","14":"tag-giancarlo","15":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","16":"tag-milwaukee","17":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-modular","20":"tag-modular-story","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-new","24":"tag-new-york-yankees","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-oneil","27":"tag-oneil-cruz","28":"tag-overall","29":"tag-overall-positive","30":"tag-pirates","31":"tag-pittsburgh","32":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","33":"tag-point","34":"tag-positive","35":"tag-scores","36":"tag-sport","37":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","38":"tag-sports","39":"tag-sports-news","40":"tag-stanton","41":"tag-statistics","42":"tag-story","43":"tag-the","44":"tag-to","45":"tag-to-the-point","46":"tag-u0026","47":"tag-yankees","48":"tag-york"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114572687095602841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}