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Major League Baseball. The Home Run Derby is an annual home run hitting competition in Major League Baseball (MLB) customarily held the day before the MLB All-Star Game, which places the contest on a Monday in July. In the context of the competition a "home run" consists of hitting a baseball in fair territory out of the playing field on the fly.
Retrieved 24 June 2012. Exceptional homer-hitting resumes for all, adding to the luster of the fact that Thome—at least in terms of sheer volume in career home runs and walk-off home runs—eclipsed them all: Jim Thome 13, Babe Ruth 12, Jimmie Foxx 12, Stan Musial 12, Mickey Mantle 12, Frank Robinson 12.
Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [ a ] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
SEE MORE: Home Run Derby all-time records His derby performance would really put the event on the map. Though televised as a same-day broadcast by ESPN from 1993-1997, the derby would become a ...
The only other player in MLB history to win all those awards in the same season, excluding the Home Run Derby, was Maury Wills in 1962. [84] His home run off of former Orioles and then Montreal Expos pitcher Dennis Martínez was the defining moment of American League's 4–2 victory in the 1991 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
On Monday night, we will have the 31st Home Run Derby, a fun event that has been put on by Major League Baseball since 1985. Will we witness history? Home Run Derby: All-time records
When he hit his 500th career home run in 1999, he did so in 5,487 career at-bats, the fewest in major league history. [37] He led all of MLB in home runs in five different seasons: 1987 and each season from 1996 to 1999. His total of 245 home runs from 1996 to 1999 is the highest four-season home-run output in major league history.
The longest home run, amongst the total 312 hit by the 8 players involved, covered a distance of 488 ft (148.74 m), and was hit by the runner-up of the contest, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. This was the first derby since the format change in 2015 to feature tie-breaking rounds, as Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Joc Pederson went to a record three swing ...