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Going first in his matchup with Alonso, Mancini surely knew he needed a big number in the two-minute round to stand a chance. An extended timeout and a hilarious hit-by-pitch from Alonso’s BP pitcher, Mets bench coach Dave Jauss, hardly broke Alonso’s concentration. The 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby offered no shortage of scintillating storylines and fantastic feats.
Coors Field is already a hitter's environment, and the baseballs used in the Derby this year will not be placed in a humidor beforehand. The T-Mobile Home Run Derby returned with a hard-hitting, high-flying, mile-high event. Tickets are listed by third-party sellers and may be above face value.
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Still, a 481-foot rocket meant Soto got a full, one-minute bonus period and took advantage with another seven to at least make Alonso work a bit. A favorite coming into the night and a heavy favorite after his seemingly effortless 51 homers across the first two rounds, Alonso remained serene on the staging couch as he watched Trey Mancini put up 22 dingers. That was a daunting target (just one shy of Alonso’s final round record of 23 back in 2019), but the Polar Bear’s first swing -- a 111 mph, 509-foot shot toward the left-field concourse -- erased any sign of nerves.
The top seed in the tournament, Schwarber faced off against Pujols, who has 685 homers to his name. The 42-year-old Pujols opened with 13 dingers, giving Schwarber a decent-size hill to climb. The Phillies slugger wasted no time chipping into that, hitting seven homers before taking his timeout. He was slow out of the gate after the break, adding only three before his minute of bonus time. Schwarber didn’t hit his first homer in bonus time until the halfway point, but added three in the final 30 seconds to force a one-minute tiebreaker. With the second-most homers in any round by a rookie in Derby history.
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Kyle Schwarber, Corey Seager, Juan Soto, José Ramírez, Julio Rodríguez, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Albert Pujols make up the rest of the field. Eight Major League Baseball sluggers will compete Monday night for the title of 2022 Home Run Derby champion. 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...
Each contestant has three minutes in the first and second rounds to hit as many home runs as he can. Each batter gets one one 45-second timeout in each of the regulation periods (i.e., not during any bonus time that's added on). Any tie in any round will be broken by a 60-second "swing off." The winner receives a $1 million prize.
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That led to another swing-off, this one featuring three swings for each guy. Soto was perfect, going three-for-three, including a 506-foot blast. Making a return to the stadium he used to call home, Seager had a tough act to follow after Rodríguez crushed 32 home runs to lead off the Derby. With his dad, Jeffrey, throwing to him, Seager earned bonus time early with two of his first four homers going more than 440 feet. Seager got into a groove once he came back, blasting 10 more homers to run his total to 20 before bonus time. He couldn’t overcome the deficit, though, ending with 24 home runs.
LOS ANGELES -- Hours before the 2022 T-Mobile Home Run Derby on Monday at Dodger Stadium, Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera was asked who he planned to root for during the marquee event. Naturally, he picked his countryman, Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. “I have to stick with Acuña, although he... The CBS Sports stable of MLB writers recently conducted a roundtable on this very topic, and five writers made four different predictions -- Story, Ohtani, Mancini, and OIson.
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Mancini translated his straightaway center power to homers across the first portion but came out sluggish out of his timeout. Still, he hit his 12th homer to tie Story with 30 seconds remaining and then knocked the go-ahead blast with 23 seconds left, carrying his remarkable comeback story into the finals. While he’s only 22 years old, Soto had to be exhausted after needing two swing-offs to defeat Ohtani in the first round. It started to show, especially after the first minute, when Soto popped six dingers. At one point, Soto hit just one homer in the span of 13 swings, and while he recovered a bit, he finished regulation with only eight.
He followed that a few swings later with a massive 480-foot homer, earning an extra minute in a span of four homers. Alonso still had some work to do, as he hit only 10 home runs before his break. He came back a little sluggish, hitting three homers before rattling off four straight to bring his total to 17 ahead of bonus time.
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. 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. Many didn’t expect Mancini to make the final round, but then again, he already beat the odds by returning to baseball this year after missing 2020 due to colon cancer.
LOS ANGELES -- It was a homecoming of sorts for Rangers shortstop Corey Seager, as the former Dodgers slugger was received warmly by the crowd at Dodger Stadium on Monday night for the T-Mobile Home Run Derby.... Participants are seeded based on the number of home runs they've hit this season at the time the bracket was created on Wednesday. Ties are broken by 2020 home run totals, except in the case of Mancini and Alonso.
Looking to become only the fourth player in Derby history to win the event multiple times, the 2019 champion came out firing and set a Derby record for a first round with 35 dingers. He crushed 13 of those before a timeout at about the halfway mark -- at one point homering on nine straight swings. The damage included bombs of 514 and 512 feet that sent fans on the left-field concourse ducking for cover. Alonso went deep 25 times in regulation but wasn’t even close to being done, adding 10 more in one minute of bonus time. The Mets slugger walloped nine bombs of 475 feet or longer and didn’t even seem tired at the end.
Major League Baseball’s top sluggers will compete Monday night in the Home Run Derby. The star-studded field is headlined by Los Angeles Angels two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who is the odds-on favorite to win the event. After Ohtani tied him, he hit six more homers in a one-minute tiebreaker, including a 500-footer, to put the pressure back on Ohtani -- who proceeded to tie things up again.
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J-Ram didn't hit any 440-footers, but he added two more home runs in his extra 30 seconds to take his first-round total to 17. Major League Basebal's 2022 Home Run Derby is set for Monday night at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium. Headlining the eight-slugger field is New York Mets star Pete Alonso, who is trying to become the first hitter ever to win three consecutive MLB Home Run Derbies (only Ken Griffey Jr. has three total Derby wins). Alonso prevailed in 2019 and last year (no All-Star events were held in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic).
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... While everyone else faltered as the rounds went on, Soto got stronger. He finished regulation in the finals with three home runs, whereas the rest of the field just couldn't keep pace as the rounds drew on. Pete Alonso is looking to become the first player in big league history to win the event in three consecutive seasons.
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