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Colorado Rockies All-Star C.J. Cron is the only other player with a 480-foot homer this season, hitting a 486-foot shot at Coors Field last month. Prince earned the first of his two career Derby titles in 2009 at Busch Stadium, at one point hitting a ball out of sight, an estimated 503 feet to right-center field. His dad, Cecil, famously hit multiple balls into a bar area in the third deck of center field seats in Toronto in 1991. During the 2021 MLB season, we didn’t see any of the deepest homers approach the record for the longest home run ever hit. But some familiar sluggers, including some teammates, deliver huge blasts that left everyone in the stadiums just admiring the baseball as it flew out. Larry Robinson-USA TODAY SportsWashington Nationals outfielder Juan Soto hit the longest home run in the Home Run Derby in 2021.

Taking his swings at Coors Field, the All-Star slugger demolished a 520-foot blast in Colorado that astonishingly went into the third deck of the stadium. It should come as no surprise that Coors Field is responsible for the three longest home runs in MLB this season. On Aug. 9, Colorado Rockies infielder Ryan McMahon unloaded on a pitch in the 7th inning of a 14-5 blowout against the St. Louis Cardinals. The 495-foot blast cleared the wall in right-center field, sailed over the advertising signs and went into the second deck of the deepest part in the yard. While the atmosphere in Colorado certainly played a part, it’s fair to say McMahon got all of that pitch and put his raw power on display. • Ohtani’s longest blast was a 110 mph shot that traveled a projected 513 feet, which tied Judge’s previous Statcast record-holder from 2017.
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Cron managed to do on June 17th, crushing a baseball 486 feet to left field is still impressive. Plenty of other visiting batters have the same opportunities Cron has, but he has the second-longest home run in the season thus far. Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit the longest home run in 2022, demolishing a 499-foot blast off Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Kuhl on Sept. 6. As you might expect, baseball legends are credited with the records. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Josh Gibson didn’t benefit from technology tracking how far they hit a baseball.
Notably, Ken Griffey Jr. initially quietly declined to take part in 1998, partly due to ESPN scheduling the Mariners in their late Sunday game the night before. After a discussion with ESPN's Joe Morgan and another with Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, Griffey changed his mind, and then won the Derby at Coors Field. On July 11, 1988, the day before the Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Cincinnati, TBS televised the annual All-Star Gala from the Cincinnati Zoo. Larry King hosted the broadcast with Craig Sager and Pete Van Wieren handling interviews.
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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. Soto started hot, hitting five homers in his first seven swings, including two of 440 feet or longer. He had 10 before taking his timeout, putting himself in a great position to advance.
If the players remain tied, the players engage in a sudden-death swing-off until one player homers. None of the home runs hit in the derby topped the longest dinger of the 2022 MLB season. Miami Marlins outfielder Jesus Sanchez crushed a 494-foot homer at Coors Field back in May.
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• What a night it was for the Orioles’ Trey Mancini, who made a spirited run to the finals in his first Derby, a year after overcoming colon cancer. Mancini’s 59 total homers are the fifth most by any player in any Derby. • If you go by average homer distance, Alonso only got stronger as the night went on. His fence-clearers averaged 447 feet in Round 1, 450 feet in the semifinals and 464 feet in the finals. Registration is set to 60 players per age group for time consideration.
In a 3-1 count with the Twins trailing 4-3, Buxton turned a hanger from Liam Hendricks into a no-doubt 469-foot blast to end the game. Incredibly, it is the longest walk-off home run ever tracked by StatCast since 2015. Aaron Doster-USA TODAY SportsWhile the 2022 MLB Home Run Derby offered fans a chance to watch the best power hitters in baseball, history was made in the minor leagues.
After Nationals outfielder Juan Soto kicked off the second round with 15 — fresh off a thrilling win over Angels two-way phenom Shohei Ohtani — Alonso passed his NL East opponent with 16 homers. The 2021 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby was a home run hitting contest between eight batters from Major League Baseball . The derby was held on July 12, 2021, at Coors Field in Denver, CO, the site of the 2021 MLB All-Star Game. Holliday certainly agrees with the notion Ohtani could make history in this derby.

The bracket is a single-elimination bracket with three rounds total. Depending on how much credence you place in that figure, we could see something historic on Monday night, about three miles east of where the mammoth Meyer shot landed. The conditions appear to be ripe for some mammoth homers in Lower Downtown Denver when the T-Mobile Home Run Derby gets under way tonight at 8 p.m. Gallo's moonshot is the most clutch homer on this list, as it came off Indians closer Cody Allen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. The homer didn’t do much for Cleveland in the game, as Chicago secured a 7-4 win. Eight of baseball’s premier sluggers are kicking off MLB’s All-Star festivities in Los Angeles with the Home Run Derby on July 18.
It took a Stanton-ian combination of a 115.8-mph exit velocity and a very low 18-degree launch angle for Stanton to reach that part of the park. After crushing a a 482-foot shot on Opening Day in '19, Mazara topped himself for the Statcast record with a colossal smash against the White Sox. The left-handed slugger unloaded on a 94.7-mph fastball from Reynaldo López and sent it soaring into the upper deck in right field at Globe Life Park in Arlington.
A year after he beat Stage III colon cancer, Mancini thrilled the crowd, launching 24 homers as the first batter up in the derby. He beat Athletics first baseman Matt Olson and then walked off the hometown hero, Rockies shortstop Trevor Story, with 13 homers to Story's 12. He led off against Royals catcher Salvador Perez with 35 homers in the opening round.
Shohei Ohtani, defending champion Pete Alonso, Trevor Story, Trey Mancini, Salvador Pérez, Matt Olson, Juan Soto and Joey Gallo will compete for this year’s title. Baseball fans everywhere know the difference between Coors Field and regular stadiums, as the ball travels farther in the thinner air due to the altitude. For tonight’s HR Derby, there appears to be no humidor to keep the baseballs regulated which means the ball will absolutely rocket out of the park. Expect there to be records of all kinds set tonight for the HR derby, especially for distance.
