Sidney Crosby Launches Batting Practice Home Run at PNC Park

by Pat Lackey

Filed under: Pirates, NL Central

A world-class, 23-year-old athlete blasted a batting practice home run that bounced out of PNC Park yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately for the Pittsburgh Pirates, the athlete in question was crosstown hockey star, Sidney Crosby. Crosby was there with eight of his teammates as a guest of former Pirate and Pittsburgh native Sean Casey.

Crosby's blast was estimated at 360 feet and it skipped over the top wall of PNC Park's right field grandstand and down onto the stadium's River Walk. After hitting the homer, Crosby gave a brief interview to PittsburghPenguins.com (you can see both the homer and the interview in the video embedded below the jump) and tried to downplay the homer by mentioning that he played baseball until he was 13 and that it's easy to hit a homer to right in PNC.

 

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