Alex Call entered the majors with modest power totals, compiling 20 career homers across four seasons, yet launched a 453-foot home run at Coors Field, the longest by a Dodger this season. The blast came off Austin Gomber and marked Call's first homer since joining the Dodgers about a month earlier. A broadcast graphic noted the distance and Call reposted it with the caption "For real??" Prior to that weekend he was hitting .281 with a .832 OPS and had made several strong defensive plays. Call provides late-game defensive replacement value and lineup flexibility, especially versus left-handed pitchers.
No one will confuse Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Alex Call with a power hitter. Call has 20 career homers in four Major League seasons. To put it into perspective, through the first four years of his career, Shohei Ohtani clubbed 93 homers (269 total homers for his career). While Call and Ohtani aren't often compared to one another, there is one stat separating the two in a way no one saw coming when Call was acquired in July from the Washington Nationals.
This past week at Coors Field in Denver versus the Rockies, Call smashed an Austin Gomber delivery a whopping 453 feet to left center field. It was the first homer he had hit since joining the Boys in Blue nearly a month ago. The following day, Spectrum's coverage of the game included a graphic stating that Call's homer was the longest home run this year by a Dodger.
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