Frazier had two home runs of more than 440 feet in the round with a long of 448 feet.
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American Leagues Todd Frazier, of the Chicago White Sox, hits during the MLB baseball All-Star Home Run Derby, Monday, July 11, 2016, in San Diego. Carlos did manage to beat his first round opponent Todd Frazier however by a score of 16-13.
Robinson Cano, the ex-Yankee who won the event in Arizona in 2011, managed only seven homers, though it hardly seemed to matter given Stanton’s prodigious exhibition. His longest launch of the night was 497 feet in the first round, which is 39 feet longer than the longest homer hit during the first 12 1/2 seasons of baseball at the downtown home of the San Diego Padres.
Overall, the Miami Marlins slugger hit a record 61, shattering the single-night mark of 41 by Bobby Abreu in 2005. “If we were one or two away, we would have had to go to replay or something because I’m not going out like that”. Stanton hit 2o of the exhibition’s 21 longest dingers.
The powerhouse Stanton recounted watching the Derby as a kid and seeing the likes of Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Ken Griffey Jr. make the event a must-watch spectacle.
Stanton continued to dominate in the second round with an additional 17 home runs. And quite properly the victor also had the longest homer of the night measuring 497 feet. Fernandez was among several All-Star pitchers expressing interest in participating in the Home Run Derby. With a similar patient approach Frazier defeated the Reds’ Adam Duvall, this time hitting the clinching 16th homer down the left field line with 38 seconds left to move onto the final to face Stanton.
For Stanton it happened just a little bit more frequently than his competitors. “I’ve got a lot of family here, a lot of friends here, so it’s a good time for me”, he said. Each player gets four minutes to take as many swings as possible, and Duvall still had 90 seconds on the clock when he hit his 11th home run to pass Myers.
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But fans who clicked on the link for the original promotion thought that the discount would correlate to the total amount of home runs Stanton hit in the Derby and apply to the remaining home games.
