By Marc Topkin, Times Staff Writer
NEW YORK — Carlos Peña studied enough engineering to know how to do the math, but he couldn’t estimate how far his home run to just about dead centerfield went Saturday.
“I knew I hit it pretty good,” he said.
Several Rays guessed it went close to 500 feet. The consensus was the same ball hit at Tropicana Field would have landed at least on top of the Batter’s Eye restaurant.
“Or over that into the brick area,” Ben Zobrist said. “It was a shot.”
Manager Joe Maddon suggested, with only some hyperbole given the roomy dimensions and lack of carry at new Citi Field, it surpassed Lou Brock’s famous homer at the Polo Grounds as the longest to centerfield in any of the New York stadiums. More – TampaBay.com
