Triston Casas throws shade on Ted Williams home run seat.

The Red Sox first baseman expressed doubts over Ted Williams’s famous home run after hitting a 429-foot homer in Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Angels.

“That’s my best ball, for sure,” Casas told reporters of his homer, which had 111.9 mph exit velocity. “I had one hit harder, exit velo-wise, last year. But that Ted Williams seat is starting to feel more and more like a myth.”

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David Ortiz expressed similar thoughts.

I was at a game in the early 1980s when Reggie Jackson hit a home run half-way up the rightfield seats, which I thought was a monster shot. (Very likely this game.) Since then, Fenway underwent numerous remodels, the most impactful might be the addition of a new press box behind home plate. The taller structure changed the wind currents of the part, and ball appear not to be blown as much when they are hit with a high arch. so it could both be true that Williams hit the seat, and that it may not be possible to reach the seat today.