Where Kyle Schwarber's Monster Home Run Landed

By Emma G. Gallegos in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 14, 2015 3:55PM

Kyle Schwarber #12 of the Chicago Cubs at bat (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

Last night Kyle Schwarber absolutely crushed it with a monster home run that seemed to sail over the scoreboard. It happened in the bottom of the seventh, and helped clinch the Cubs win against the Cardinals 6-4.

But what actually did happen to this beautiful home run?

There was some speculation it might pop up far from home:

No one has claimed to have found the ball outside the stadium in Wrigleyville, and it sounds like the ball stayed close to home. And ABC 7 took this shot that shows a ball right on top of the video monitor under the "I" in Budweiser:

The Chicago Tribune says one of their employees has before and after shots proving the ball was Schwarber's.

Tom Comings, an enterprise architect for Tribune Publishing, said, “Nobody actually saw where it went at first and then instantly I said ‘There it is, on top of the scoreboard.' I put the picture on Twitter, and pictures from the seventh-inning stretch that clearly shows there was no ball up there then... It had to ricochet perfectly to land there."

Update: The Cubs confirmed to the Tribune that the home run ball atop the right field video board is indeed the Schwarber homer. The ball has an MLB postseason watermark on it, and it's been returned to its spot. The Cubs plan to put a plexiglass case around it to preserve it from the elements until they win the World Series finish their post-season run. What happens after that hasn't been decided. A security guard will be escorting anyone who needs to go up to the top of the video board—just to make sure it's not stolen.