Red’s longest home runs of 2025: #6 – Spencer Steer – Redleg Nation

We are now five weeks into this series and for the first time a player not named Elly De La Cruz is on the list. If we learned anything from Greg Madduc and Tom Glavine in the late 1990s, it’s this everyone likes the long ball. Okay, maybe that wasn’t exactly the conclusion of the two Cy Young Award winners, but long home runs are something people have been talking about for over a hundred years. But only in the last decade have we really been able to measure their distance with *any* accuracy. Thanks to ball tracking in the major leagues, we can compare 1-to-1 how far a baseball went. Each week for the next few months, we’ll be counting down the 10 longest home runs the Cincinnati Reds have hit in the 2025 season.

In early August, Spencer Steer hit the sixth-longest home run of the Cincinnati Reds season when he faced the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The video

The statistics behind the explosion

Distance statistics

Distance: 439 feet

Reds ranks: 6th

Major League Baseball Rankings: 226th (tie)

Spencer Steer Rank: 1

Other statistics

Launch angle: 30°

Output speed: 105.6 mph

Bat Speed: 73.5 mph

Reds Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 55th (out of 167)

Reds Bat Speed ​​Rank (home runs only): 83rd (of 157)

MLB Exit Velocity Rank (home runs only): 2386th (out of 5544)

MLB Bat Speed ​​Rank (home runs only): 3540th (out of 5288)

The story behind the explosion

The Reds had a two-run lead in the top of the 8th inning and Spencer Steer was facing former teammate Dauri Moreta, who had just returned to the big leagues after Tommy John surgery cost him all of last season and part of 2025.

With Steer up in the count 2-1, Moreta went to his slider and hung it up. Dead red, in the middle of the plate and Steer did what you should do with such a pitch: fired at it. The ball passed the left center seats and ended up in the concourse, increasing the Reds lead to 9-5.

The lead felt safe at the time, but Pittsburgh scored three runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning to bring the score close again. However, Cincinnati put things away in the top of the ninth, as they scored a 5-spot to make it 14-8. That’s where the game ended.

For Spencer Steer, this was his second straight multi-hit day and he went 5-9 between the last two games in Pittsburgh. He was just 2-21 in the month before those two games. But he also didn’t carry those days with him after leaving Pittsburgh. In the next (and final) 18 games of the month, he hit just .200.

You can follow the entire series here.