MLB’s greatest fireworks present of the summer time takes place a bit of greater than every week after July 4.
Right here is every part you might want to learn about this yr’s occasion.
When is the 2025 Dwelling Run Derby, and the way can I watch it?
The 2025 T-Cellular Dwelling Run Derby will get underway from Truist Park in Atlanta at 8 p.m. ET tonight. You may watch the occasion dwell on ESPN and ESPN2.
Which gamers are on this yr’s Dwelling Run Derby?
We’re preserving observe of this yr’s individuals proper right here. The eight sluggers confirmed for the competitors are:
What’s the format for this yr’s Dwelling Run Derby?
There are three rounds to the eight-player Derby: first spherical, semifinals and finals.
Within the first spherical, the eight gamers every have three minutes or 40 pitches (whichever comes first) to hit as many homers as attainable. There may be additionally a bonus interval for every participant that lasts till they report three outs (any swing that does not lead to a house run) inside the interval. If a participant hits a house run of no less than 425 toes inside the bonus interval, the interval is prolonged till the participant data a fourth out.
The gamers with the highest 4 homer totals advance to the semis. Within the occasion of a first-round tie, the participant who hit the longest dwelling run throughout the spherical advances.
Within the semifinals, the format shifts to “knockout type,” with No. 1 vs. No. 4 and No. 2 vs. No. 3. The seeds are decided solely by the variety of dwelling runs every participant hit within the first spherical. Gamers may have two minutes or 27 pitches within the semifinals and finals, and residential run totals from the primary spherical do not carry over.
Ties within the semifinals or finals are damaged by a 60-second “swing-off” with no further time added. If a tie stays after the “swing-off,” batters then interact in successive three-swing “swing-offs” till there’s a winner.
The winners of the 2 semifinal matchups advance to the finals, the place the boundaries are lowered to 2 minutes and 27 pitches. The participant with essentially the most dwelling runs after that interval is topped Dwelling Run Derby champion.
One closing notice: Every batter is entitled to at least one 45-second timeout in every of the three regulation intervals, however timeouts cannot be known as throughout the bonus intervals or tiebreakers.
Has Atlanta beforehand hosted the Dwelling Run Derby?
Sure, as soon as earlier than. The All-Star Sport came about at Atlanta’s Turner Discipline in 2000. That yr’s eight-player Derby area featured 5 future Corridor of Famers: Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero Sr., Ivan Rodriguez and hometown favourite Chipper Jones.
Griffey was going for a three-peat and a fourth Derby title, however he was defeated within the finals by Sammy Sosa, 9 homers to 2. Sosa crushed 26 dingers throughout the occasion. Griffey had the second-highest complete with 11.
What occurred in final yr’s Derby?
There have been 225 homers hit throughout the 2024 Dwelling Run Derby at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington, Texas. These dingers traveled a mixed distance of 92,590 toes, or roughly 17 1/2 miles.
