Louisville Bats 2025 Top 10 Home Runs
The 2025 Louisville Bats had a year to remember. Throughout the season, some of the best prospects in the Cincinnati Reds organization took the field and delighted fans at Louisville Slugger Field. Over the 150-game season, 22 different players combined to hit 158 home runs for Louisville. As 2025 winds
The 2025 Louisville Bats had a year to remember. Throughout the season, some of the best prospects in the Cincinnati Reds organization took the field and delighted fans at Louisville Slugger Field. Over the 150-game season, 22 different players combined to hit 158 home runs for Louisville. As 2025 winds down, we are taking a look at the top 10 home runs from the 2025 Bats season.
Honorable Mention: Noelvi Marte Grand Slam – July 1 vs. Indianapolis
After nearly two months on Cincinnati’s injured list, infielder Noevli Marte was ready to go joined the Bats on a rehab assignment on July 1. In his first game for the Bats since mid-April, Marte reached base four times, with a seventh-inning grand slam turning a 6-3 lead into a 10-3 rout, as the Bats would beat the Indians 12-5. The grand slam was the Bats’ fourth of the season, and Marte ended the night with five RBI, his most in a single game at the Triple-A level.
10: Hector Rodriguez Hits First Triple-A Home Run – July 26 vs. Iowa
With a breakthrough first half of the season for Double-A Chattanooga in the rearview mirror, Hector Rodriguez looked to continue his fine form with the Bats. He did just that, producing a .458 average over his first seven games in Louisville. But on July 26, he finally got his first Triple-A home run, a 403-foot blast over the Humana Cabana in right field. The 21-year-old finished the season as the Reds’ number nine prospect and was added to the 40-man roster in November.
9: CES Goes The Other Way In A Big Way – August 26 vs. Columbus
In their final series of August, the Bats began the week with a dominant 7-0 win over their division rivals. While the pitching was sharp, the story was Louisville’s bats. In the second inning, Christian Encarnacion-Strand crushed an opposite-field 400 foot blast onto the roof of the Miller Time Taphouse in right-center to increase the Bats lead to 3-0. He would finish a single shy of the cycle in one of his best games for the Bats in 2025.
8: Will Benson Opens Season With Long Homer – March 28 vs. Memphis
In his first game for the Bats since 2023, Will Benson got the 2025 season started on the right foot. In the first inning of the Bats’ season opener against Memphis, he crushed Louisville’s first home run of the season. The 416-foot moonshot over the Miller Time Taphouse in right-center gave the Bats a lead they would never relinquish in a 9-4 win.
7: Edwin Rios Goes Over The Batter’s Eye – April 19 at Columbus
In his two seasons in Louisville, Edwin Rios has shown that his power knows few limits. That was evident early in the season at Huntington Park in Columbus. Trailing 5-3 entering the fifth, Rece Hinds crushed a homer to make it 5-4. Just four pitches later, Rios connected on his longest homer of the season, a 440-foot shot over the tall batter’s eye to tie the game. The Bats continued to rally from there, leading to a 10-7 win.
6: Blake Dunn Hammers 456-Foot Home Run – September 13 at Toledo
Throughout his career, Blake Dunn has built a name for himself with his speed. Over 369 Minor League games, he’s swiped 124 bags compared to just 42 home runs. But on Louisville’s final road trip of the season at Fifth Third Field, Dunn got a hold of a Paul Sewald fastball on the inside part of the plate and took aim at his headshot on the left field scoreboard and demolished a 456-foot homer, the second longest homer by a Bats player in 2025, to add to the Bats’ lead in a game they would win 6-5.
5: Rios & Hinds Go Back-To-Back In The 10th – April 6 at Omaha
After going 593 days without hitting back-to-back runs, the Bats made up for lost time in 2025. The drought, which began on August 23, 2023, came to an end in the Bats’ ninth game of the season on April 6 at Omaha. With the score tied 3-3 going into extra innings, Edwin Rios led off the frame with a two-run homer to give the Bats the lead. Rece Hinds continued the offensive assault with a shot to straightaway center, giving the Bats a lead they wouldn’t surrender in a 7-5 triumph. This was just the first one nine instances of back-to-back homers in 2025.
4: Ivan Johnson Hits Bats’ First Grand Slam Since 2023 – May 6 vs. Omaha
Similar to their back-to-back home run drought, the Bats also went without a grand slam in 2024. That also came to an end early in the season, as Ivan Johnson went the other way for the Bats’ first grand slam in 197 games on May 6 vs. Omaha, turning a 5-1 lead into a 9-1 blowout at Louisville Slugger Field. The grand slam was the first of five for the Bats in 2025.
3: Sal Stewart Takes Aim At Apartment In Two-Homer Night – August 23 at Nashville
From the moment he joined the Bats in July, it was evident that Sal Stewart was a one-of-a-kind hitter. His power was on display throughout his brief time in Louisville, never more evident than on August 23 at Nashville. With family and friends in attendance, Stewart blasted the Bats’ longest home run of the season in the first inning, a 460-foot moonshot that one-hopped an apartment building adjacent to First Horizon Park. Seven innings later, Stewart did it again with an opposite field laser into the right field stands that left his bat at 106.8 miles per hour for a three-run homer. Pounding his chest as he crossed home plate, Stewart left a big impression with his second and final multi-home run game as a Bat.
2: Rece Hinds’ Two-Run Shot Ties It In The 9th – September 3 vs. St. Paul
Late in the season, the Bats produced one of the longest winning streaks in franchise history, a 11-game streak from August 29 to September 10. The streak nearly came to an end on September 3 vs. St. Paul, but Rece Hinds refused to let it die. Trailing by two runs in the ninth inning on a hot afternoon at Louisville Slugger Field, Hinds hit a 113 mile per hour rocket over the left field berm to tie the game. An inning later, the Bats would walk off to win, their fifth win in a row on their biggest streak of the season.
1: Edwin Rios Mashes Walk-Off Homer In Penultimate Game – September 20 vs. Nashville
With his final swing of the 2025 season, Edwin Rios delivered his biggest moment. Down a run in extra innings, Rios led off the 10th inning against Nashville with the Bats’ first walk-off home run of the season, a 439-foot drive to cap a wild comeback win for the Bats, who trailed the game 7-1 but rallied to win 9-8. The walk-off homer was Rios’ third as a Bat and his fourth walk-off hit over his two seasons in Louisville.