Travis Bazzana hit a baseball 412 feet into the second deck at Citizens Bank Park on Sunday afternoon. His reaction afterward was about as Bazzana as it gets.
The Cleveland Guardians second baseman delivered the biggest blow of a 3-1 series clinching victory over the Philadelphia Phillies, launching a solo home run off Jonathan Bowlan in the eighth inning that left the bat at 105.3 mph and never came close to landing anywhere but the seats. It was the kind of swing that makes an entire ballpark go quiet.
Uhh, holy nuke.#GuardsBall pic.twitter.com/Pet1a4VQWP
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 24, 2026
When asked about it afterward, Bazzana was honest.
“I mean, I got just about every bit of that. I’ve hit a couple of balls harder or further in my life, but that’s about all I got right now, I’d say. So yeah, that was a good one,” Bazzana said.
#Guardians infielder Travis Bazzana on his 412-foot home run he hit today:
"I mean, I got just about every bit of that. I've hit a couple of balls harder or further in my life, but that's about all I got right now, I'd say. So yeah, that was a good one."#GuardsBall
— Cade Cracas (@CracasCade) May 24, 2026
That is the mentality of a player who is not easily impressed by his own accomplishments.
The home run came at the perfect moment for Cleveland. The Phillies had cut the Guardians lead to one run in the bottom of the seventh, and Citizens Bank Park was starting to generate some noise after a relatively quiet afternoon for the home crowd. Bazzana stepped in against Bowlan in the eighth and immediately ended the conversation, putting a ball into the second deck in right field that gave Cleveland a two run cushion and handed Cade Smith exactly the margin he needed to close things out in the ninth.
The exit velocity tells the real story of the swing. A 105.3 mph reading is elite by any measure and puts Bazzana in the conversation with some of the hardest hitters in baseball when he gets the barrel to a pitch in his zone.
Bazzana has been on an absolute tear over the last 21 games, hitting .329 with a .414 on-base percentage, nine walks, seven stolen bases, three home runs and 10 RBI during that stretch. He is doing damage in every phase of the offensive game right now, and Sunday’s performance was a reminder that on any given day he is capable of being the best player on the field regardless of who is pitching or what the situation demands.
Cleveland takes the series win in Philadelphia and heads into the next part of the schedule at 32-23, riding the kind of momentum that a second deck home run from a 23-year-old with a chip on his shoulder tends to generate.
That was a good one. Bazzana said so himself.
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