Baseball fans take their home runs very seriously, especially when hit by a member of their favorite team. In fact, the popular mantra used by today’s millennials for home runs is “Chicks Dig the Long Ball.”

So when Dodgers shortstop and 2016 National League Rookie of the Year Corey Seager hit his monster home run on Wednesday night at a chilly and damp AT&T Park in San Francisco, chicks went to bed digging it.

But when they woke up on Thursday morning – Seager’s 23rd birthday, coincidentally – they were digging it a little bit less – not the home run itself, but its true distance.

Why, you ask?

Because during Wednesday night’s live television broadcast of the game on SportsNet LA, StatCast’s on-screen / real-time analysis listed Seager’s blast to very deep center field at a remarkable 462 feet, which would have tied it with Rangers third baseman Joey Gallo as the second longest home run of the 2017 season behind only Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant‘s and Brewers utility infielder Travis Shaw‘s 465-footers.

While chicks may dig the long ball, dudes dig StatCast.
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Would have.

On Thursday morning, Home Run Tracker – the accepted authority on home run data – had Seager’s blast listed with a “true distance” of 446 feet; a mammoth home run any way you slice it but 16 feet shorter than what StatCast had it at the evening before. As such, it dropped to the 10th-longest home run of the season on Home Run Tracker’s list of longest home runs (as of April 27, 2017), tied with Twins utility infielder Miguel Sano‘s 446-footer hit on April 13, 2017.

Unfortunately, Seager’s remarkable home run became a moot point when Giants pinch-hitter and former Dodger (for a day) Michael Morse slugged a lowly 412-foot solo home run off of Dodgers reliever Pedro Baez in the bottom of the eighth inning to turn a 3-2 Dodgers lead into a 3-3 tie. Ironically, it was the first home run and earned run that the oft-criticized Baez has allowed this season in his 8.1 innings pitched thus far.

It was also his first blown save.

Anyway … Happy Birthday Corey.