{"id":781241,"date":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/781241\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:45:48","slug":"here-are-the-longest-home-runs-in-college-world-series-history-that-we-know-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/781241\/","title":{"rendered":"Here are the longest home runs in College World Series history (that we know of)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wyatt Langford made history in the ninth inning of Florida’s comeback victory against Virginia on the opening night of the 2023 Men’s College World Series.<\/p>\n

Langford crushed a game-tying home run tracked at 456 feet, according to the official NCAA 2023 MCWS media notes.\u00a0That distance surpassed Arkansas’ Brady Slavens by 20 feet\u00a0for the longest-tracked homer in MCWS\u00a0ballpark history at Charles Schwab Field Omaha (previously called TD Ameritrade Park) \u2014\u00a0unofficially. The stadium has\u00a0hosted the tournament since opening in 2011. In 2024, Tennessee’s Christian Moore joined the list at No. 3 all-time with a home run to center that went 440 feet.<\/p>\n

Why is this record unofficial? We reached out to Jeff Williams, NCAA associate director of media coordination and statistics, back in 2019 to find out if the NCAA keeps historical records of the longest home runs hit at the College World Series. It turns out they don’t, but thanks to ESPN, television home to the MCWS since 2003, we have a pretty good idea of some of the other longest bombs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

ESPN has been tracking home run distance since the tournament’s move from Rosenblatt Stadium to Charles Schwab Field Omaha in 2011. According to ESPN Stats & Information, here are\u00a0the longest homers hit in the MCWS since 2011:<\/p>\n

\t\t\tDATE
\n\t\t\tHITTER
\n\t\t\tSCHOOL
\n\t\t\tHR DISTANCE
\n\t\t\tOPPONENT
\n\t\t\tINNING
\n\t\t\tHR DIRECTION<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/16\/23
\n\t\t\tWyatt Langford
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t456 ft.
\n\t\t\tVirginia
\n\t\t\t9th
\n\t\t\tLeft<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/25\/23
\n\t\t\tWyatt Langford
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t449 ft.
\n\t\t\tLSU
\n\t\t\t6th
\n\t\t\tLeft<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/15\/26
\n\t\t\tDaniel Jackson
\n\t\t\tGeorgia
\n\t\t\t447 ft.
\n\t\t\tOklahoma
\n\t\t\t8th
\n\t\t\tLeft-center<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/14\/24
\n\t\t\tChristian Moore
\n\t\t\tTennessee
\n\t\t\t440 ft.
\n\t\t\tFlorida State
\n\t\t\t6th
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/22\/22
\n\t\t\tBrady Slavens
\n\t\t\tArkansas
\n\t\t\t436 ft.
\n\t\t\tOle Miss
\n\t\t\t5th
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/25\/23
\n\t\t\tBT Riopelle
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t435 ft.
\n\t\t\tLSU
\n\t\t\t9th
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/16\/19
\n\t\t\tEdouard\u00a0Julien
\n\t\t\tAuburn
\n\t\t\t429 ft.
\n\t\t\tMississippi State
\n\t\t\t2nd
\n\t\t\tRight<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/20\/15
\n\t\t\tPete Alonso
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t429 ft.
\n\t\t\tVirginia
\n\t\t\t2nd
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/22\/17
\n\t\t\tBrendan McKay
\n\t\t\tLouisville
\n\t\t\t428 ft.
\n\t\t\tTCU
\n\t\t\t4th
\n\t\t\tRight-center<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/21\/16
\n\t\t\tPete Alonso
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t425 ft.
\n\t\t\tTexas Tech
\n\t\t\t9th
\n\t\t\tLeft<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/25\/23
\n\t\t\tTy Evans
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t423 ft.
\n\t\t\tLSU
\n\t\t\t2nd
\n\t\t\tLeft<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/17\/15
\n\t\t\tPete Alonso
\n\t\t\tFlorida
\n\t\t\t421 ft.
\n\t\t\tMiami (Fla.)
\n\t\t\t7th
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/17\/17
\n\t\t\tDylan Busby
\n\t\t\tFlorida State
\n\t\t\t421 ft.
\n\t\t\tLSU
\n\t\t\t1st
\n\t\t\tCenter<\/p>\n

\t\t\t6\/17\/19
\n\t\t\tCameron Warren
\n\t\t\tTexas Tech
\n\t\t\t421 ft.
\n\t\t\tArkansas
\n\t\t\t4th
\n\t\t\tLeft<\/p>\n

Nine days after his record-setting blast, Langford went deep again for the second-longest MCWS homer in park history. This time, he was recorded at 449 feet on a wind-aided drive to left field in Game 2 of the championship series.<\/p>\n

Georgia’s Daniel Jackson, the 2026 Golden Spikes Award winner, was less than 10 feet away from dethroning Langford, crushing a moonshot to left center against Oklahoma in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n

Before Langford, Slavens briefly held the record with his 2022 deep drive, becoming\u00a0only the third player to hit a home run in any college game into the gap between seats in centerfield at Charles Schwab Field Omaha, joining\u00a0Alonso and\u00a0Busby from the MCWS list above.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alonso has three of the longest homers on the list. His\u00a0first big fly in the 2015 tournament registered at a projected distance of 421 feet to left field on a 93-mile per hour fastball from Miami righty\u00a0Derik Beauprez on June 17, 2015. The ball landed about five rows deep, just to the left of the batter’s eye in straightaway center.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the best feeling in the world,\u201d Alonso said after that game<\/a>. \u201cEspecially if you connect with one and it gets out of this park because historically the ball doesn\u2019t travel well here, then its definitely a well-struck ball and to square up a baseball and have it go over the fence is the best feeling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just three days later, Alonso broke his own park record with that\u00a0mammoth 429-foot shot against Virginia. This time, he jumped on a hanging breaking ball and launched it well beyond the 408-foot wall in centerfield.<\/p>\n

The Gators would eventually lose that game to Virginia, 5-4, to fall one game short of reaching the CWS finals. But Alonso certainly left an impression in Omaha. And he wasn’t done.<\/p>\n

Florida returned for the 2016 College World Series, and Alonso continued to rake. Against Texas Tech in the ninth inning of an elimination game, he crushed a 425-foot two-run homer that nearly reached the concourse beyond the left-field stands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That would be Alonso’s final at-bat in a Gators uniform. He\u00a0signed with the\u00a0Mets as a second-round pick after Florida was\u00a0eliminated by Texas Tech. In seven career MCWS games, Alonso finished with a .320 average (8-for-25), three home runs, five runs and nine RBIs.<\/p>\n

The next longest CWS homer hit at TD Ameritrade Park behind Langford, Slavens, Julien and Alonso\u00a0came off the bat of three-time John Olerud Award winner Brendan McKay.<\/p>\n

McKay hit his 428-foot bomb \u2014 one foot short of the record \u2014 in his final collegiate game back in 2017. He finished 1-for-4\u00a0in Louisville’s 4-3 elimination game loss to TCU.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me personally, it\u2019s just another statistic,\u201d McKay said back in 2017 at the postgame press conference. \u201cBut to hit a home run in the College World Series is awesome, on national TV in front of 20-some thousand people in the stands, it\u2019s pretty awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

It’s noteworthy that all eight homers at the top of ESPN’s list have come since 2015. A flat seam baseball \u2014 which travels off the bat further \u2014 was approved by the NCAA for use starting that season. This move was made to counter bat specifications changes in 2011 that led to a decrease in offensive production. Six total home runs were hit in 30 games at the 2013 and ’14 College World Series.<\/p>\n

HOMER HISTORY: A brief history of grand slams at the College World Series<\/a><\/p>\n

The number of CWS home runs rose to 15 with the new ball in 2015 and closed at\u00a010 in 2016. In 2017, 23 long balls were hit, shattering the new stadium’s record (2011-current). That was topped in 2021, with 28 MCWS homers hit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wyatt Langford made history in the ninth inning of Florida’s comeback victory against Virginia on the opening night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":781242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[10787,5,648,3318,182,13247,6228,6554,47148,1579,1694,2341],"class_list":["post-781241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-auburn","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-college-world-series","tag-florida","tag-florida-baseball","tag-florida-gators","tag-florida-st","tag-longest-home-run","tag-louisville","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117111867575255560","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781241","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=781241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/781242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}