WATCH: Kyle Schwarber's Historic 120 MPH Home Run Propels Phillies Win

SAN DIEGO, CA — Few things silence a raucous October baseball crowd that hasn't seen their team win a playoff game in 24 years more than the crack of the opposing team's bat.

There are sea lions in the coves of La Jolla 14 miles up the Pacific coast from Petco Park that still hear that crack echoing 12 hours later.

Phillies left fielder Kyle Schwarber turned on an inside curveball from Padres ace pitcher Yu Darvish, ripping a line drive straight into the upper deck:

According to Statcast, an automated tool that measures things like the speed of pitches and hits, the ball traveled 488 feet. It was sent into the San Diego sky at an absurd 120 miles per hour.

It's the longest and hardest hit ball in Phillies playoff history, and in the history of Petco Park. It's the second farthest home run ever hit in the playoffs. Reactions were unanimously bewildered. The Fox sports camera lingered on Bryce Harper's dropped jaw. "I've never seen that before," Phillies announcer Scott Franzke said during the radio broadcast. "I've just never seen anything like that," Phillies outfielder Matt Vierling told ESPN. "I asked a couple of the guys on (the Padres), and they said they'd never seen a ball in the upper deck like that," Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto told MLB.com. "I've never even seen that done in batting practice or anything," Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler added.

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Schwarber's moonshot gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead in Game 1 which they would never relinquish. The hit immediately entered Philadelphia sports legend. Liberty Line Philadelphia's Luke Arcani spliced it side by side with the epic Matt Stairs home run in the 2008 National League Championship Series against the Dodgers, another massive and decisive swing on the West Coast that was pivotal in swinging inertia in a Philadelphia direction.

Stairs' stance and swing was nearly identical to Schwarber's. Like a reincarnation. Or a prophecy.

The Phillies won that series over the Dodgers back in '08. They won the next series, too.