# MLB: August 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [August 1, 2025, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595 "2025-08-01T20:38:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/141 "2025-08-30T18:17:58Z")
I stumbled across this in my feed and found it fascinating to see the behind-the-scenes of how what we see on TV happens: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7535933891459222797 ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/142 "2025-09-01T01:49:33Z")
Yankees lost today but with a home run Judge tied Yogi Berra for 5th in the franchise career home run totals. When it’s Ruth, Mantle, Gehrig and DiMaggio ahead of you that means something. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/143 "2025-09-01T20:19:09Z")
The Red Sox Trevor Story got one of the shortest home runs ever. He hit a fly ball to the right field line, the ball went into the glove in fair territory, bounced out, hit the Pesky foul pole, back into the glove, out of the glove, and struck a fan. It was ruled a foul ball by the first base ump, a ground rule double by the scorekeeper, and eventually a HR by New York after a challenge. I haven’t seen the official distance, but it must have been around 305’ Not as exciting as Jarren Duran’s inside-the-park HR yesterday. He recorded the fastest one this season, 14.71 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/144 "2025-09-01T20:30:41Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > He hit a fly ball to the right field line, the ball went into the glove in fair territory, bounced out, hit the Pesky foul pole, back into the glove, out of the glove, and struck a fan. Watch the video [here](https://www.thescore.com/mlb/news/3336341/amp). Crazy stuff. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/145 "2025-09-01T20:54:57Z")
_That_ was nuts. Damned good thing we have modern cameras or that’d be Schrödinger’s play where nobody could ever agree what really happened since the wavefunction never collapsed. Different thought: I wonder how much the fielder not controlling the ball was due to his hand / glove colliding w the pole. It was definitely hand, glove, ball, and pole all trying to occupy the same space at the same time. That probably stung pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/146 "2025-09-01T23:49:00Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The Red Sox Trevor Story got one of the shortest home runs ever. Probably not. The dimensions of the Polo Grounds were 279 down the left field line and 258 down the right field line. It went out to 483 in center. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/147 "2025-09-02T13:15:39Z")
I did say “one of”. 🙂 The LA Collesium had a left field line of 251’, and a 1959 HR by Wally Moon just barely clear it. The Polo Grounds certainly had short HRs as well that were shorter than anything at Fenway. In the Statcast Era (2015, I think) the 10 shortest HRs in MLB have all been along the right field line at Fenway, the shortest being exactly 302’. There’s one on the list from Truist Park that has to be a mistake since it’s shorter than any of the park dimensions. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/148 "2025-09-02T13:57:38Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > The Red Sox Trevor Story got one of the shortest home runs ever. He hit a fly ball to the right field line, the ball went into the glove in fair territory, bounced out, hit the Pesky foul pole, back into the glove, out of the glove, and struck a fan. The “fan” was a 10 year old boy who got hit on the head by his glove. Seemed on the verge of tears but had his dad there to help give him moral support. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/149 "2025-09-02T21:02:16Z")
The official distance was 306’, second shortest of the Statcast era. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/150 "2025-09-03T00:25:50Z")
Don’t you just hate it when the only game on TV is between 2 teams you loathe? I guess I’ll have to side with the (shudder) damn Yankees because they’re playing the Asterisks and I want that team erased from history. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/151 "2025-09-03T00:33:03Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > I guess I’ll have to side with the (shudder) damn Yankees because they’re playing the Asterisks and I want that team erased from history. Don’t root for the Yankees, just root against the Astros. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/152 "2025-09-03T01:27:14Z")
Maybe they can both lose. Root for injuries and a bench-clearing brawl. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/153 "2025-09-03T02:03:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Root for injuries and a bench-clearing brawl. In the 32nd inning. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/154 "2025-09-05T17:09:38Z")
[September thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-august-2025/1021595/155 "2025-09-05T17:37:05Z")
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