Cincinnati Reds slugger Elly De La Cruz gave the team its lone offensive highlight on Monday night, crushing a monstrous 457-foot solo home run in the ninth inning of a 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Great American Ball Park. The blast came against Los Angeles reliever Evan Phillips and traveled between section 144 and the power stacks in center/right-center, leaving the stadium.

De La Cruz's homer came during a seven-pitch battle with Phillips. The final offering was a 98 mph fastball above the strike zone, but De La Cruz connected and sent it 457 feet. Back-to-back groundouts followed, leaving Cincinnati with only one run for the game.

ELLY DE LA CRUZ'S HOME RUN LEFT THE BALLPARK 🤯

457 FEET!pic.twitter.com/PhO9U8HRXw

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The home run was De La Cruz's longest since his rookie season in 2023, when he hit a 467-foot shot against Xzavion Curry. It also pushed him to 27 home runs through 131 games this season, surpassing his previous career high of 25 homers in 160 games in 2024. He hit 22 home runs across 162 games last season.

However, the homer was not the longest recorded at Great American Ball Park. Adam Dunn hit an estimated 535-foot home run off Dodgers pitcher Jose Lima in 2004, while Juan Francisco and Wily Mo Pena had estimated blasts of 502 and 498 feet, respectively. Paul DeJong's 486-foot homer in 2018 remains the longest Statcast-measured home run at the ballpark.

De La Cruz has also maintained a 21-game on-base streak, reaching base 44 times during that stretch while hitting .419/.468/.767 with 16 extra-base hits. For the season, he is batting .284 with 26 home runs, 71 RBIs and 25 stolen bases, while ranking first in OPS among qualified MLB shortstops. He has been credited with 5.6 FanGraphs WAR and 5.0 Baseball-Reference WAR.

Los Angeles limited the Reds to four hits while recording just three hits of its own, but the Dodgers drew six walks compared with one for Cincinnati. Tarik Skubal pitched seven shutout innings on 90 pitches before Alex Vesia and Phillips handled the final two frames.