MLB Home Run Derby 2022: Time, bracket, TV channel, live stream for baseball's All-Star slugfest
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The semifinal winners will compete for the crown of Home Run Derby champion. The top seed from each league will face the winner from his league's Round 2 matchup. Hitter No. 1 for the NL will hit first followed by Hitter No. 1 for the AL. This order will continue for hitters Nos. 2-5 for each league, with the NL going first, followed by the AL. A new format is being introduced for the 20th annual Gillette Home Run Derby at Target Field in Minneapolis. Ten players will compete in the event on July 14 at Target Field, five from the American League and five from the National League.
LOS ANGELES -- Albert Pujols didn’t win, but for perhaps the first time in his career, that wasn’t at all the point. Pujols was eliminated in the semifinals of the 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby on Monday night, falling by a score to Nationals slugger and eventual winner Juan... The 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby offered no shortage of scintillating storylines and fantastic feats. You had a two-time defending champion Pete Alonso gunning for the event's all-time king, Ken Griffey Jr. You had a future Hall of Famer, Albert Pujols , giving it one more shot and delighting the crowd...
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Cron, who get the benefit of being able to slug at Coors Field. • Schwarber has been among the hottest hitters in baseball since the calendar turned to June. The left-handed slugger has 18 home runs since June 1, three more than any other hitter over that period. A hot summer is becoming a habit for Schwarber -- he hit 16 long balls in the month of June last season.
But Schwarber leads the field in dingers, made the Derby Finals back in 2018, and looks like he should be the favorite tonight. Kyle Schwarber leads the participants with 29 long balls in the first half of the season and comes in at +330 to win the home run derby on DraftKings and Caesars. However, he did not start taking off until May, where he hit his first bomb.
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With Nationals hitting coach Kevin Long throwing left-handed to the lefty-hitting Soto, he vaporized a pitch that flew 520 feet and broke the all-time Statcast distance record that Story set earlier in the round. Soto sent most of his drives to center field or even the opposite way, mashing 18 homers in regulation, but he couldn’t quite get in a groove in the one-minute bonus period, adding just four . He finished regulation with 17 homers and easily earned a minute of bonus time with four 475-plus foot clouts.
My colleague, Josh Yourrish, has his conspiracy-theory hat on and believes MLB will find a way to give Pujols the victory. So if you're looking for a huge cash early on, rock with Pujols. The 2022 MLB Home Run Derby is tonight at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Your California Privacy Rights, Children's Online Privacy Policy and Interest-Based Ads are applicable to you. Remember to submit your fantasy football mailbag questions to Michael Fabiano for a chance to get it answered in the Friday edition of the newsletter.
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Each round stands alone, with the score reset for each round. If the players remain tied, the players engage in a sudden-death swing-off until one player homers. A "home run" in the context of the competition, consists of hitting a baseball in fair territory out of the playing field on the fly.
• A third title for Alonso would be notable for the Mets, too. It’d be the fourth HR Derby title in Mets history, along with Darryl Strawberry’s as a co-champ in 1986. That would tie the Yankees for the most titles of any franchise. • At 42 years old, Pujols will become the oldest Home Run Derby participant.
After Soto went deep on all three of his swings, Ohtani caught his breath and stepped back in one last time. He couldn't get his first swing over the fence, though, and just like that … his night was over. After pumping up the crowd, Alonso stepped back in and walloped two majestic homers to easily defeat Soto -- and then he kept swinging, not knowing that he could stop.
He started out hitting a series of high fly balls that scraped over the fence, transitioned into some low screaming liners that cleared the fence and then started bashing a few that cleared the whole dang stadium. The rookie Rodriguez moves on, knocking out the two-time defending champ, with Alonso failing to become the first three-peat Derby winner. The four-minute round length was made permanent in 2016, while the minute of bonus time was reduced to 30 seconds and required two home runs of at least 440 feet (134.1 m). Each batter is allowed one time-out during each round, and two in the finals. Beginning in 1991, the format changed to a 3-round contest.
Griffey is the only player to win three total Home Run Derbies, also winning in 1994. • In his final season, Pujols has one last chance at a Derby crown. He's participated in four Home Run Derbies in his career (2003, '07, '09 and '15), the first three as a Cardinal, but has yet to win one. Pujols reached the finals in his first Derby, but lost to Garret Anderson, 9-8. His 71 total Home Run Derby home runs are eighth-most in the history of the contest. Other Derby champions in their debut season with a new club include Miguel Tejada with the Orioles in 2004, Jason Giambi with the Yankees in 2002 and Andre Dawson with the Cubs in 1987.
He got off to a slow start with just one home run in the first 56 seconds and had to call an early timeout. And then we shed a few more when all the All-Stars surrounded Pujols before his final 30 seconds to honor one of the great careers in major league history. • The Rockies, of course, have hit a lot of long home runs in their history. But since Statcast began tracking in 2015, no Colorado player has hit a longer one than Story’s 487-foot blast on Sept. 5, 2018, onto the left-field concourse at Coors Field. With the benefit of playing half his games at altitude, Story has averaged 416 feet on homers in his career, tied with Stanton for the longest of any player with 100-plus roundtrippers in that span.
He's a switch-hitter -- and no switch-hitter has ever won the Home Run Derby outright. Switch-hitter Ruben Sierra shared the Derby crown with Eric Davis back in 1989. Lance Berkman is the only other one to even make the finals, in 2004. • With a win, Seager would become just the third shortstop to win the Home Run Derby. Before that, Cal Ripken Jr. was the first shortstop to win the contest in 1991.
Alonso made this look positively easy through the first two rounds, and set himself up for a shot at back-to-back Derby titles in the final against Mancini. Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby is a special competition held annually the day before the All-Star Game in which players compete to see who can hit the most home runs. The format of the event has changed multiple times since its debut in 1985. Currently, 10 players compete in a four-round event, with each player getting seven "outs" per round.
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In the 2007 event, fifteen golden balls were hit for a donation of $255,000, and ten ($170,000) were hit in the 2008 event. For 2009, State Farm added $5,000 for all non-Gold Ball homers, and $517,000 was collected. For 2010, the non-Gold Ball homer was reduced to $3,000 per home run and a total of $453,000 was collected.
Kyle Schwarber’s odds sit at +330, which is the second best odds in the derby. Like Alonso, he also has a swing designed to leverage his mass and get the ball in the air. He is favored (-180 on DraftKings) to beat Jose Ramirez in the first round. From there, he would face the winner of Kyle Schwarber/Albert Pujols. More important, Soto is on the opposite side of the bracket of Pete Alonso.
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