It took one pitch for the Twins to fall behind the Padres Thursday afternoon as Fernando Tatis turned on a fastball from Bailey Ober and lined it over the wall in left field.
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The ball left Ober’s hand at 93 mph and left Tatis’s bat at a whopping 110.8 mph.
According to Statcast, it would’ve been a home run in 28 of 30 MLB ballparks. The projected distance on the shot was 369 feet.