The Bomb

The Components

Rick Porcello -- with a 7-2 record and a 3.81 ERA -- has pitched pretty well this season. However, he's struggled to keep the ball inside the park, surrendering 1.31 home runs per nine innings through his 13 starts.

In his start two weeks ago against the deadly Baltimore Orioles offense, Porcello didn't give up just one homer, but two to Mark Trumbo alone. The first one you can see above, a 441-foot dong with an exit velocity of 114.8 mph which left the bat an angle a shade below 20 degrees.

A ball hit that far off that angle truly was demolished. But, in this situation, it's really nothing new for Trumbo.

He's produced a pretty mediocre 29 wRC+ in 1-2 counts this season, but with men on base, Trumbo has been a beast. His hard-hit rate is nine percentage points higher with men on base than it is with the bases empty while his soft-hit rate drops by almost three percentage points.

Both numbers have led to Trumbo's wRC+ of 186 with men on base, but, even more importantly, to seat-cracking bullets like this one.