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"I know him from Cuba, and this is not the type of competition he would excel at. He's not really a home run hitter. So I would definitely win." Puig has hit the fewest home runs of any of the derby participants. He is often described as more of a line-drive hitter than a slugger of towering home runs. Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton, a Southern California native, hit six home runs in the first round.
He'll have a swing-off with Donaldson to determine who advances in the second round. The first batter of round two was also the first batter of round one. Stanton's third homer was the first of the night to reach the third deck. His fourth was a 430-foot shot to the second deck in dead center .
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But pre-derby favorite Giancarlo Stanton of the Miami Marlins was shut out, and Frazier advanced. In the second round, Harper, with his father, Ron, serving as his personal pitcher, stepped to the forefront by repeating his eight-homer performance of the first round. Father and son found themselves in a nice -- and touching -- groove.
He found his groove in the second round to make short work of Jones, 9-3. And Cespedes' seven-homer total in the semifinals was enough to beat Bautista, who finished with four after a long layoff. Once the rain cleared and the batting-practice pitches started coming, Bautista and Stanton were the ones who dominated the Derby early on.
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Or to Justin Morneau, whose Minnesota homecoming was met with a thunderous standing ovation. Will usually ship within 2 business days of receiving cleared payment. NEW YORK -- The Home Run Derby champion didn't even make the All-Star team. Rain has delayed the start of the home run derby, which was scheduled to start shortly after 5 p.m. The tarps are off the field, and the derby is set to begin, offically kicking off the All-Star break festivities.
Davis tied Reggie Jackson for the AL home run record before the All-Star break. Bautista provided the first spark of excitement as the fourth batter. The AL derby captain clubbed 10 home runs, several of which reached the outfield upper decks. Bautista settled at 10 and walked away after recording just six of the allotted seven outs. For the NL, Frazier won a swing-off over Morneau with one home run in the allotted three swings.
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Amazingly, Cespedes came into this Derby with no home runs in his previous 84 at-bats. A couple of hours later, he came out of it as an all-time Derby icon. Miguel Cabrera, right, of the Detroit Tigers sits with American League teammates during the MLB All-Star baseball Home Run Derby. American League's Chris Davis of the Baltimore Orioles hits during the second round of the MLB All-Star baseball Home Run Derby, Monday, July 15, 2013, in New York. American League's Yoenis Cespedes, of the Oakland Athletics, watches one of his hits during the MLB All-Star baseball Home Run Derby, on Monday, July 15, 2013 in New York.
He batted .345, hit 4 home runs, scored 6 runs, and drove 12 RBI while posting a 1.263 OPS. On March 28, in his major league debut, he went 1 for 3, and was also hit by a pitch. The following day, he hit his first major league home run, a 2-run shot off Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Shawn Kelley.
Blue Jays outfielder Jose Bautista and Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton clubbed the most home runs for the AL and NL, respectively, and each advance with a bye to the semifinals. Bautista hadn’t swung a bat in the competition for about an hour before he stepped up for the semifinals. Bautista racked up four outs before he connected for his second and third homers, and couldn’t make a late run to catch Cespedes. The ballpark was really buzzing after Cespedes' sensational first round, in which he tied Ortiz for the third-most homers in a single round. It wasn't the same as Josh Hamilton's 28-homer outburst in the first round at Yankee Stadium in 2008, but it was still pretty special. And Cespedes was one of four first-time Derby participants to advance to the second round, joined by Harper, Davis and Michael Cuddyer.
Puig executed his customary bat flip as the ball cleared the high green wall. Any further and he could have knocked out the Budweiser sign. In the swing-off, however, Céspedes crushed two balls into the second deck in left.
"It was difficult for people like Bautista and Stanton because they had to wait so long in between." The 27-year-old Cespedes has struggled as a sophomore, batting .225 with 15 home runs, but hardly anyone in the game doubts his ability. His first-round outburst was enough to send him straight into the finals, though he added six long balls in round two for good measure. With family in the stands, Cespedes hit a whopping 17 home runs in the first round — more than any other player managed in their first two trips to the plate. The Mariners have a stable of young, talented players who could claim victory at home. Julio Rodriguez leads the charge, but Eugenio Suarez, Cal Raleigh, and Ty France all had 20 or more home runs last year.
A fan catches the second home run hit by National League captain David Wright. David Wright of the New York Mets bats during the Chevrolet Home Run Derby on July 15, 2013. Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals bats during the Chevrolet Home Run Derby. And they might have traveled another 12,000 feet if they'd been pitching to him on a runway at LaGuardia instead of in a ballpark with all those obstacles in his path. "After he finished that first round, I was in awe, along with the rest of the crowd -- and the rest of the players. We knew, after that, that the only one that could screw this thing up was going to be me." This would have been an epic show whether it was staged in Kansas City, Bismarck or downtown Havana.
Gonzalez remains in the National League starting lineup for Tuesday night's All-Star Game, though. The final addition to the field, Cespedes was the fourth player not selected for the All-Star Game to compete in the event. Stanton knocked a homer just over the left-field fence on his first swing and proceeded to put on a show, clobbering six home runs.
The Mariners’ home field has earned a reputation for being a pitcher-friendly setting, but it’s less intimidating for home runs hitters. In three of the past five seasons, T-Mobile Park ranked in the league’s top half in home run Park Factor. It’s become a hallmark of the MLB season as baseball’s best hitters vie for the distinction of being crowned the Home Run Derby Champion. The first was a projected 504-foot rainbow that broke up a party in a second-deck suite in deep left-center. Starting with that swing of the bat, he would go 36 swings -- from that point in the first round through his 11th swing in the finals -- without ever making two "outs" in a row. It was practically Josh Hamilton-esque, minus the skyscrapers and the monuments.
Frazier might have made the same mistake, letting Cespedes bat first in the finals. Cespedes didn't miss a beat, cranking out nine homers with an average distance of 409 feet, including one that traveled 452 feet -- the longest recorded distance of the night. The preview, it turned out, came in the swing-offs that ended the first round. A three-swing tiebreaker followed, with Cespedes and Frazier advancing and, as it turned out, paving their way to the finals. "That was the charity ball, too," said Stanton, referring to Gillette's fundraising initiative tied to homers hit using the orange balls.
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