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S spizzlepop1,000+ posts
Today I was lucky enough to catch a power display that doesn't show often in the college game. Kyle Kretchmer, son of observer44, plays 1b for UNLV. The Rebels are in town playing the Lobos at Isotopes Park, home of the AAA Isotopes (Dodgers).

In batting practice, Kyle hit screaming liners and moon shots all over the park. One of these prolific bombs hit the top of the black fence beyond the trees and above the 428 marker in right center. That, my friends, is close to 500 feet! Kyle supplied all the power.

"There are two kinds of people in this game: those who are humble and those who are about to be." Clint Hurdle
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Originally posted by spizzlepop:
Today I was lucky enough to catch a power display that doesn't show often in the college game. Kyle Kretchmer, son of Observer44, plays 1b for UNLV. The Rebels are in town playing the Lobos at Isotopes Park, home of the AAA Isotopes (Dodgers).

In batting practice, he hit screaming liners and moon shots all over the park. One of these prolific bombs hit the top of the black fence beyond the trees and above the 428 marker in right center. That, my friends, is close to 500 feet! Kyle supplied all the power.


spizz - thank you for posting this. I am a HUGE Kyle Kretchmer fan!! He defines grace, class, great academic performance, being a great teammate, and is a VERY talented player imho among other things. For whatever reason, the young man has not gotten a fair chance imho. He just keeps his nose to the grindstone however and NEVER complains. Of course, anyone who knows ob44 this comes as no surprise. The apple and the tree are hard to distinguish. I am confident that ob44 will give all the credit to the young man however Smile
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infielddadinfielddad10,000+ posts
spizzlepop,
thanks for sharing and providing the photos, too.
Hmmmmmm, 500'. That is a long way for a baseball to fly. That would take a very powerful hitter to do that. We already knew Kyle is very powerful as a person and student. So, does this count as the "triple crown?"
It sure does in my book.
WOW!! Great student(the best), great person, great family, and can hit more than a little bit...sorry, that is more than a triple crown.
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S spizzlepop1,000+ posts
I got ~500', a guesstimate for sure, by adding up the terraces to the right of the fence segments that climb the hill past 428. I'm no engineer, and I slept at home last night, but if that's not close to 500 then I'm not who I think I was.
I've seen perhaps longer drives at this park by pros against game pitching, but this was done with a 50 mph BP toss.
F 3FingeredGlove1,000+ posts
Gives me an opportunity to not only send kudos to O44 kid, but also to talk up the capabilities of the combination of maps.live.com and Google Earth.

Either one will find the field just by typing Isotopes Park (an unusual name for a ball park or any kind of park!). Using maps.live.com with birds eye view allows you to see the field in considerable detail. The view from behind the scoreboard shows the black fence very clearly. Google Earth is a satellite view, whcih has less detail, but has a ruler tool which allows one to find distances quite accurately.

Looks to me like the top of the black fence is 465 feet from home plate. Home run distances are measured by extrapolating the distance the ball would have gone if it had landed on a level field rather than at some higher point like the stands or, as in this case, where the ground slopes up. I suppose that would add another 20 feet or so, so pretty close to 500 feet. That's quite a blast!
ClevelandDadClevelandDadHSBBWeb Administrator
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Originally posted by 3FingeredGlove:
Gives me an opportunity to not only send kudos to O44 kid, but also to talk up the capabilities of the combination of maps.live.com and Google Earth.

Either one will find the field just by typing Isotopes Park (an unusual name for a ball park or any kind of park!). Using maps.live.com with birds eye view allows you to see the field in considerable detail. The view from behind the scoreboard shows the black fence very clearly. Google Earth is a satellite view, whcih has less detail, but has a ruler tool which allows one to find distances quite accurately.

Looks to me like the top of the black fence is 465 feet from home plate. Home run distances are measured by extrapolating the distance the ball would have gone if it had landed on a level field rather than at some higher point like the stands or, as in this case, where the ground slopes up. I suppose that would add another 20 feet or so, so pretty close to 500 feet. That's quite a blast!

3FG - you are one of my very favorite posters - you are a machine - kind of like Albert Pujols Big Grin

Nobody knows the rules better than you and I am convinced you are an Engineer as well - am I right about that?

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