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The five longest homers of June, with twice the Joc and Giancarlo

Joc and Giancarlo, that pair sounds like it could be a lot of things — a melodic rap duo, for instance, or twin sons of a move star. Maybe a pair of chefs with a hip food truck.

They're also the two guys who ruled baseball's home-run distance game in June. We're talking, of course, about Joc Pederson of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins. And now that the calendar has flipped to July, it's time for The Stew, like we always do, to look at the longest homers from the month that just ended.

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Unlike May, when it was four Stanton homers and one other dude, June is a little more of a party. We've got two Stanton blasts, two Pederson blasts (from the same day!) and a somewhat surprising overall leader — Hanley Ramirez, who has been injured and whose name isn't quite as fun to say as the others.

Here's the entire top five list with details and data from MLBAM's very precise Statcast tracking system:

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1. HANLEY RAMIREZ, JUNE 21, 480.53 FEET
Hanley only hit three homers in June, a month in which he missed time with a hand injury, but he made this one count.

2. GIANCARLO STANTON, JUNE 23, 478.61 FEET
Because it might be hard to tell the Stanton mega homers apart, this is the one he hit 119 mph.

3. GIANCARLO STANTON, JUNE 5, 478.38 FEET
At the time, this was the longest homer of the year.

4. JOC PEDERSON, JUNE 2, 476.83 FEET
Young Joc had a field day at Coors Field in early June ...

5. JOC PEDERSON, JUNE 2, 471.55 FEET
... see what we mean? And if we took the list out to the top 10 homers, Pederson would have also had No. 8.

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