ATLANTA — Junior Caminero and Cal Raleigh superior to the finals of the House Run Derby on Monday night time.
Within the semifinals, Byron Buxton — dealing with Caminero — adopted his 21-homer first spherical with a seven spot within the second spherical. Caminero blew previous that whole, needing simply 12 swings to succeed in eight homers and advance to the ultimate spherical.
On the opposite aspect of the four-man bracket, Raleigh outslugged Oneil Cruz 19-13, regardless of Cruz mashing a 498-foot shot.
Cruz and Caminero hit 21 house runs within the opening spherical, with Cruz receiving the highest seed based mostly on the longest house run tiebreaker.
Raleigh and the A’s Brent Rooker additionally completed that spherical in a tie at 17, however Raleigh’s longest house run beat Rooker’s by the narrowest of margins — 470.61 ft to 470.53.
Washington Nationals outfielder James Wooden started the night time with 16 house runs, together with a 486-foot shot, earlier than Rooker adopted with 17.
Tampa Bay star Caminero, utilizing a bat along with his face on it, then hit 11 of the primary 14 pitches he noticed over the fence, earlier than totaling 21 in a powerful spherical.
Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Cruz hit one in every of his 21 first-round homers 513 ft to right-center subject, marking the farthest recorded house run in Truist Park historical past.
Buxton of the Minnesota Twins had 20 homers and New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit simply three out.
Raleigh, the Seattle Mariners catcher and Main League Baseball’s house run chief, switched from the left-handed batter’s field to the best with simply over a minute left on his strategy to 17.
To cap the primary spherical, Atlanta first baseman Matt Olson recorded solely 15 in his house park, leaving Cruz, Caminero, Buxton and Raleigh within the semifinals.
–Jack Batten, Discipline Stage Media