On Friday night at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mike Trout did something pornographic to a baseball.

ESPN is calling it at 489 feet, which would be the longest hit in the majors since Giancarlo Stanton hit a 494 foot bomb in 2012. If that number seems a little off to you, it’s been confirmed by ESPN’s Hit Tracker, which is what we use every week for our longest homers of the week feature (and you’ll be seeing this hoer by Trout in next week’s edition).

This homer by Trout is such a massive blast. It cleared the batter’s eye in center field, which is a good 30 or so feet high and more than 410 feet from home plate. Yeah…let’s go ahead and put this in our ledger as the longest homer of the first half (even with a couple of weeks left), and possibly, the longest homer of the 2014 season.

During Friday night’s Braves-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies are doing something cool. Their three-man broadcast booth of Tom McCarthy, Jamie Moyer, and Matt Stairs is stationed in the center field seats for the evening. Where the broadcasters are located is in firing range for home run balls, and that’s exactly what happened in the first inning when Freddie Freeman smashed a three-run bomb off of Kyle Kendrick.

The home run ball was caught (with one hand, mind you) by McCarthy, who then gave in to the wishes of the Phillie faithful and threw the ball back onto the field. I normally hate when fans throw home run balls back, but this was a thing of beauty.

The Milwaukee Brewers have been on a tear with viral videos this season, and the latest one is a tribute to Will Smith, starring…Milwaukee reliever Will Smith and the rest of the Brewers bullpen in a mashup of various Will Smith songs.

I almost want the Brewers to keep playing well just so we can keep getting more videos like this. These are phenomenal.

During Wednesday’s Athletics-Mets game at Citi Field, Josh Reddick made a great catch on a foul pop-up…and he had to avoid a fan to even snag the ball.

There really was no reason for the fan to move – if the ball is out of play, it’s fair game for the fans. And Eric Young Jr. was batting – not an Oakland hitter. Reddick actually did him a favor though. Do you see the way this fan was holding his phone trying to make the catch? If he actually did catch it, he would have his hands full of a shattered phone, and nobody wants that.

During Wednesday’s Nationals-Brewers game, an overzealous Brewers fan reached out and dove onto the team’s dugout to grab a foul ball off the bat of Martin Maldonado. Check it out.

He *really* wanted that ball. Did anyone tell him that the Brewers catcher who hit it *wasn’t* NL MVP candidate Jonathan Lucroy?

Check out this sequence of events during Evan Longoria’s wonderful catch in the third inning of today’s Pirates-Rays game

So, to recap…

-Longoria runs from his position at third base to the on-field bullpens halfway up the left field line
-He runs over one of the mounds in the bullpen to make the catch
-He hangs on to the ball as he’s about to hit the fence
-He jumps on top of, and then over, the fence while holding the ball

Got all that? The man is a wizard with the glove.