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One of baseball’s top switch-hitters, Cleveland slugger José Ramírez said he won’t decide until he gets to Los Angeles whether he’ll bat right- or left-handed in the All-Star Home Run Derby. He was hurt on the final day of play before the All-Star break in a game Boston lost 13-2. Charlie Blackmon, Story's teammate, has been a past Derby participant and shared his memories with Story. "He gave me some good advice about training for it, getting my body ready for it," Story said. More than a week ago, Story practiced with Redmond on the mound, without the batting cage.
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"I've had seven All-Star Games, and I told myself that if ever had the chance to do this, I'd want to. It looks fun." Perez simulated a regular Derby round last week, applying the timing so he would get a feel for how tired he might be, and when he might call timeouts. Ohtani's interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, will serve as the catcher for Brown in Ohtani's Derby rounds. Reportedly, Mizuhara has never played organized baseball.
But Ohtani will work with Jason Brown, the Angels' bullpen catcher. Brown threw to Ohtani during spring training and the two of them joked about Brown joining Ohtani in the Derby someday -- but when Ohtani first asked Brown, Brown thought he was kidding. The 2022 MLB Home Run Derby is set to take place on Monday, July 18 at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.
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• Gallo wasn’t having a huge power season by his standards -- until, suddenly, he was. He homered in five straight games from June 26-July 1 and joined Josh Hamilton as the only players in Rangers club history to hit at least seven big flies in any five-game span. After producing 11 homers in his first 66 games this season, Gallo went deep 13 times over his final 19 first-half games. Past Derby participants always talk after the fact about how exhausted they were, taking swing after swing rapid-fire while trying to beat the clock, and they advise others to conserve energy. Because of the demands of Ohtani's baseball life -- preparing to hit and pitch -- his daily regimen is designed for physical maintenance. Angels hitting coach Jeremy Reed said in a phone conversation last week that Ohtani has not taken any batting practice on the field this entire season.
Story knows Coors Field better than the others in the competition and is very familiar with the angles. "Straightaway left field is probably the easiest route" for a home run, Story said, "and it gets really deep to left-center. ... I'm not going to go straight down the line, but I'll go to left. "Ohtani. Man, honestly, it is amazing what he's doing. ... He's Babe Ruth. I thank God that he gave me the opportunity to see a player like him. To me, he's the best player in the game." Morgan struggled to throw strikes, but Alonso managed to reassure him, coax him along in the moment and hit enough home runs to win. Alonso's rounds of 2019 are reminders that the Home Run Derby participants can only be as good as their chosen pitchers allow them to be.
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Corey Seager was eliminated in the first round after going up against Julio Rodriguez. Mets slugger Pete Alonso lost to Soto in the second round. Seattle rookie Julio Rodriguez battled it out with Soto in the final round, losing by one home run. "Hopefully, with the home crowd, I'm hoping that's an advantage. Hopefully, I'm a little bit more used to the thin air, and can recover a little quicker than other guys. We play half the season in that park." Derby participants are typically in the early stages of their careers, but Perez is 31 years old. "I've never done this in my career, but I always wanted to," Perez said.
• Gallo hits some of the most extreme dingers in the game. He owns two career homers that have traveled 490-plus feet, including a 495-footer on July 20, 2018, that is tied for fifth longest in the Statcast era. Since 2017, Gallo’s 51 homers of 110-plus mph rank second in MLB behind the Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton, while his 16 homers of 450-plus feet are tied with Stanton for the most. Gallo is also tied for first with eight moonshots struck with a launch angle of 40-plus degrees. Alonso is trying to become the first player to win the derby three straight times. He tops the majors with 78 RBIs and has hit 24 home runs this season for the NL East-leading New York Mets.
Corey Seager, Texas Rangers
Cory Little, a part of the Rockies' media relations team, kept time, to give Story a sense of how the competition will feel. Beasley was diagnosed with rectal cancer in 2016; he is now cancer-free. A lot of hitters believe that the best batting practice, generally, is thrown by catchers, because they deliver the ball consistently from the same release point and without cutting action, and Brown is Ohtani's guy. When he was at Notre Dame, Mancini and Irish pitching coach Chuck Ristano talked about how the two of them would collaborate in a Home Run Derby someday.
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Alonso smashed 35 in the first round, 16 in the semifinals, and 23 in the finals to take the crown. In the process, he became the all-time leader for career homers in the derby with 131. • Going oppo is not a typical Derby strategy, but Soto certainly has the power to drive the ball that way.
• Alonso now has a chance to join Ken Griffey Jr. (1994, ‘98-99), Yoenis Céspedes ( ) and Prince Fielder as the only multiple-time Derby champions. • Perez is already approaching his career high in homers (27 in 2017 and '18) and has joined Gary Sánchez and Javy López as the only catchers in the past 20 years to reach 20 homers by the All-Star break. • Mancini has gone for a high degree of difficulty, with nine of his 16 homers (56%) flying to the middle third of the field, one of the highest rates in MLB. From there, the two semifinal winners will battle for the Derby crown.
'We'll work with Victoria Police first, there's obviously a police investigation, then we'll work with Football Australia in relation to what happens as a result,' said Carnegie. 'Maybe it was a little bit silly on Tom's behalf , but there is no defending what happened last night in any way, shape or form. Fans, from the Victory area, then stormed onto the pitch and Glover and referee Alex King were both struck by the metal bucket, which is filled with sand and used to dispose of flares. I'm disgraced and appalled at what happened last night,' she said. 'What they've done is they've hurt the club, the sport and the league, and hurt all the good work that came off the back of the Socceroos' campaign, and we don't want that around,' said Carnegie.
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