The love of the long ball has been around.
As long as baseball has been played, one of
the goals of the game has been always to hit
the ball over the fence. So are the young
guys set to shine Bobby Woo Jor Gunner Henderson,
the stars of today and tomorrow ready for tonight,
a night that Pete Alonso's twice in the past declared
his own. Someone else walk away with the belt
. It's one of the hottest events of the summer
. It is time for the T mobile home run
derby. It is Alec Bone that gets in.
He goes first. So he literally said it.
That's a, he's setting the bar for everybody else
to go chase and he is done. Here comes
Bobby witt Jr. He's had success in the home
run derbies before in 2018, the high school home
run derby and all of a sudden right back in
this race with home, they set the bar pretty
high and early and he will end up with 20
home runs intriguing to see what he does. This
will be the first time that Prey Pena ever throws
BP to Ado Garcia. He recruited him he's Julio
Rodriguez's BP pitcher from the last two years. He
really liked the way he did it for Julio and
he wanted to bring him in good job by Ado
Garcia and given all the injuries the Dodgers have dealt
with Oscar Herne. This has been such a vital
part of that offense. He's also got more personality
than anybody in the game. The smile never comes
off his face 19 ahead of Garcia, behind Witt
Jr and Alec ball. Now the strategy starts to
get into play here, Pete Alonso Pete is wearing
it three outs to work with. He needs some
juice in this one to center. How about Alec
B, the first guy to swing the bat knows
he's going to be in the semifinals. This is
, this is interesting here because right away left handed
hitting Jose Ramirez in batting practice told me I'm going
to hit the right side. Here's a couple of
shots that is crushed. He feels stronger. He's
got better bat speed. Oh yeah, we now
know that B and Ramirez are two of our final
four. Here comes Marcel Ozuna now because it's more
like that Nike swoosh type swing boy though. They
are going far another one. No power right there
and that is it. Ozuna is out. Gunner
Anderson now knows the number. He's got to get
to 19 to tie Hernandez. He's been nothing short
of spectacular all season long. That ball got shot
out over there. We go, we got three
in a row that won't do it. No,
it won't. He knows it. And that will
end the night for Gunner Henderson, Alec Foam,
Jose Ramirez. Bobby Wood Junior and Te Oscar Hernandez
Ramirez. And wit we're tied. Bobby Witt Junior
the favorite. It's his swing. He's so tight
to his body close to his body. There's not
a lot of moving left and tattooed. What a
show. Bobby Witt Jr just put on 17.
So Jose Ramirez knows the number that he's shooting for
. Oh tack on some homers here chasing 17.
Another one that's going to fly out of here and
that is going to send Bobby Woo Jr into the
finals. Ramirez falls short. Who will he meet
in the final? Dodgers Phillies, Teos Hernandez,
Alec Bone. Bobby Wood Junior awaits completely different strategy
and stance. Get inside the head of Te Oscar
. He's going towards the second deck. Well,
it's s that will take care of Vlady and now
it's Vlady taking care of Teos. That's gonna do
it. He's gonna end with 14 home runs.
That's where B has to get to. Oh,
there's the tiny one once. Can he win it
? Oh, no, no, but he will
go to the bonus round. Did he get it
? Did he do it? That's never, you
didn't think we'd have not have a swing off at
this thing. Come on. Why not? Why
not? He's got at least get one to put
a little pressure on Alex. You have to.
Oh, yeah, he's got 12. Puts a
big time pressure. Well, he's got two and
that is smoked. Wow. Second deck, he's
got to go three for three to move on two
to tie. And now he's got two swings and
he's got to hit two. Gotta go. Oh
, here we go. One swing to hit one
homer to keep it alive underneath it. To Oscar
Hernandez moves on to the finals. Now it's time
for the final round of the T mobile home run
derby. Ladies and gentlemen, let's get ready.
He set the stage for us, which should be
a phenomenal final. Oscar Hernandez will swing first.
Glad he knew something. Four homers. Five and
six wings. That one's gone. Yeah, way
gone, way gone. 14 is a big number
guys. That's the one big number. He's maybe
one or two more to give himself a real chance
. There is one send high towards left and another
11 goes out the 2nd 10 my. And now
Bobby Witt Junior is down to his last out and
he needs three homers. Let's see if he can
hit one out of here. Lock it down.
Whoa, a bonus. Yeah. One to tie
for Bobby witt everyone on their feet. Oh,
go on. Good luck. Good leg. Oscar
Hernandez is your 2024 team champ. What a show
. Bobby witt Jr and Teos Hernandez put on starting
pitcher is Corbin Burns. Uh, he's not here
right now and he just had twins a couple of
weeks ago. But, uh, he'll start the
game. Uh, I'll be honest, it's a
little, a little bit of both because you're trying
to, you know, get everybody involved. You
, you want them to get some time in the
game, but at the same time you, you
still want to go out there and try to win
the ball game and no, it's not dealing with
egos these, these guys uh go do whatever you
want. Yeah, this is, this is an
absolute honor um to be sitting up here as I
mentioned earlier with, with this group beside me.
Um and I get a chance to sit among the
biggest stars in the game and to me, it's
gonna be, you know, one of the absolute
baseball highlights of my life. Well, you know
, for me, it was a no brainer and
I was just trying to make sure that I hit
the sweet spot and hit it right, but Paul
is everything right about this game. Um You mentioned
youthfulness, you know, his ability to balance uh
what he's had to go through over the past year
. He has been amazing. Um He does it
with humility and he does it very, very well
, pretty dang cool um to, you know,
even be in this position to, to be at
the All Star game in the first place and um
just super grateful to be getting the, the opportunity
to start it, you know, the goal is
to be in the major leagues and to be,
you know, hopefully a, a, an effective
big league starter by this time, which is whether
that was going to happen or not. Uh,
at the time I had to make some, some
adjustments and get better and being here. Now,
I think that's just a product of, of,
you know, doing it one day at a time
and having good coaches and good people around me.
And, um, but yeah, II I didn't
necessarily think I'd be here. It feels great.
You know, you never want to take these,
these moments and these opportunities for granted because you never
know how many you're gonna get, which one's gonna
be your last one. And so getting a chance
to be here, you know, I was injured
last year. But, you know, once we
learned, we were coming to the game that we
can't miss this. So it's, each year is
so different, each year is so unique and a
great experience and to get to share it with,
you know, clay and one and, you know
, seeing what they've been doing all year for us
, it's, it is, it's gonna be a
treat. So it was great. Uh, it
means all the hard work that you've been putting on
and, and you've been showing every day into the
field. It's, it's, it's really, it
, it makes you feel proud of yourself. You
know, that as a player, you have done
so many teams and, and been grinding so hard
that to get recognized one day as an all star
I think is one of the biggest teams that a
play can get doing it every year, trying to
do it every year, trying to get here and
, and be around the guys and be around the
team. Um You know, that, that's what
it's all about, you know, having fun,
enjoying it, um and taking it all in,
you know, having gratitude for that moment, having
gratitude for the whole time you're here. And um
it's always fun for, you know, obviously the
fans and stuff, but it's fun for us as
well and we enjoy it, you know, the
best we can. Yes, it's uh been a
little bit of whirlwind. We uh we had a
uh very early game into a kind of a later
night here. So, uh yeah, it was
uh definitely a fun experience. So getting here and
just kind of seeing all the guys and uh yeah
, seeing what the first All Star game is all
about. I've been here several times and it's really
a great atmosphere for me personally, but I think
also for the entire baseball uh industry. So I'm
, I'm really looking forward to uh just being here
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