We've had these discussions before on Rangers slugger Joey Gallo, but he has as much raw power in baseball along with names like Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge. He also doesn't make a ton of contact or hit for average (.189 average with 22 K in 53 AB before Friday). 

But, boy, when he makes contact ...

What did that poor, innocent baseball ever do to you, Joey? 

That was Gallo's fourth home run of the season, and he later added a fifth. That second homer of the game couldn't measure up to how hard and far Gallo clubbed that first moonshot. To the great Daren Willman and his Statcast machine! 

So we've got a 462-foot shot, furthest of the season so far, and the hardest hit ball all year. Mr. Joey Gallo is a strong young man. 

The furthest ball hit last season was 504 feet, by Stanton in Coors Field. There were 24 homers at least 465 feet, so Gallo's shot might not hold up as the longest of 2017 for long. The hardest hit ball last year was 125.2 miles per hour (Avisail Garcia on 4/28), so the exit velocity might not hold up, either. 

Still, that was a prodigious bomb, just as it is pretty much every time Gallo squares one up.