Stephen Vogt spoke for all Guardians fans after Kyle Manzardo's towering homer 

One of the best things about baseball is the kind of reactions that a no-doubt home run can elicit. While you can get loud crowd pops in football and basketball, the crowd almost always have to wait for a ball to be caught or a shot to go through the net to react. In baseball, that can happen as soon as a no-doubt home run leaves the bat. 

And Kyle Manzardo provided Guardians fans with one of those instances on Sunday with a towering solo home run in the fifth inning that helped extend the Guardians’ lead. While the 406-foot blast wasn’t the longest home run that he’s hit this season, all 27,388 fans at Progressive Field knew the ball was gone the minute it left his bat. 

And one manager. 

GuardsTV had a camera set on Guardians manager Stephen Vogt when Manzardo made contact with his homer, which gave us a look into Vogt’s hilarious reaction to the homer. 

You don’t need Jomboy to figure out what he’s saying there. 

Kyle Manzardo’s towering home run clearly impressive Stephen Vogt

And Vogt’s reaction was the perfect personification for Northeast Ohio given Manzardo recorded his third career multi-homer game and seems to finally be breaking out of the slump that plagued him for the first month-plus of the season. 

After hitting just .186 in 28 games in April, Manzardo has hit .295 in 14 games in May with three home runs, a double and a triple. After being pretty much an automatic out in the first month of the season, he’s back to looking like the player who hit 27 home runs and drove in 70 runs last season. 

“He’s starting to hit the ball hard again, and he's finding some hits, which is great,” Vogt said before the game. Little did he know that Manzardo would hit a ball so hard it would result in one of the best reactions this season for the Guardians. 

Manzardo swinging a hot bat helps everyone. Not only is it good for the roster as a whole, but it also provides some much-needed thump to the middle of the lineup now that José Ramírez is hitting second in the lineup. 

Although we don’t know if Ramírez’s lineup change is permanent, Manzardo flashing his power makes things make a little bit more sense. 

Sunday’s win was that lineup working at its best. Not only did Manzardo record a two-homer game, but Chase DeLauter (who was hitting third) recorded his first Progressive Field home run since the start of April, while Ramírez hit his first home run since his multi-homer game against the Orioles almost a month ago. 

Couple that with another homer from Angel Martínez and more production from Brayan Rocchio at the bottom of the lineup, and all of a sudden the Guardians’ offense looks a lot more powerful than it did at this time last week. 

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