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Marlins' Slugger Giancarlo Stanton Hits Historic Home Run Out of Dodger Stadium

Marlins' Slugger Giancarlo Stanton became just the fourth player in Dodger Stadium's 53-year history to hit a home run out of the ball park.

It was a historic home run that you had to see to believe. Just ask the 49,628 in attendance at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday whose collective gasp could be heard from the homes atop Chavez Ravine.

Miami Marlins' slugger Giancarlo Stanton became just the fourth player in Dodger Stadium's 53-year history to hit a homer out of the entire ballpark.

The 478-foot blast is the longest of the season and the fourth longest in the storied stadium's history behind Willie Stargell, Mark McGwire and Matt Holliday.

Stanton hit the mammoth shot off of Mike Bolsinger who tried to throw an 85-mph cutter past one of the best and most powerful hitters in the game.

"That's the hardest and longest ball I've ever seen hit off of me," said Bolsinger smiling. "That home run was something else, you just have to look back and say 'that's awesome' and go back to the game."

The Dodgers did get back to the game, scoring 11 unanswered runs on 21-hits to defeat the Fish 11-1 guaranteeing they would win their 10th consecutive series at home. But it was the titanic blast that had people talking after the game.

"It was such a loud boom, it scared me," said Manny Colon, the traveling secretary for the Marlins who was walking just feet from where the ball eventually landed.

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The ball took off like a rocket on impact, so much so that Dodgers left fielder Scott Van Slyke never moved his feet. He merely craned his neck to see where and if the ball would eventually land.

"He crushed that ball," said Stanton's manager Mike Redmond. "He's hit a couple like that in batting practice, but he hammered that thing."

Stanton's shot heard round Los Angeles is special for the LA native who used to sit in the Dodger Stadium bleachers as a kid dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player. Never in his wildest dreams did he think he would return to hit one out of the stadium itself.

According to the Dodgers unofficial record keeping, Stanton's shot was the fourth longest homer in the history of the stadium. Willie Stargell hit one 506 feet off of Alan Foster in 1969, Dodgers' hitting coach Mark McGwire launched a long ball 483 feet in 1999, and Mike Piazza became the only Dodger to do it in 1997.

If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch the video of the colossal home run here.

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