Jazz Chisholm Jr. will join Home Run Derby
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The most-awaited event of MLB's All-Star Week, the Home Run Derby will take place at Truist Field, home of the Atlanta Braves, in 2025.
Eight of Major League Baseball's best power hitters will square off to win the 2025 Home Run Derby in Atlanta, Georgia.
Atlanta's own Ronald Acuña Jr. will represent the Braves and look to take home the chain in front of a home crowd. Though Acuña didn't make his season debut until late May, he's been on fire since returning to the field and is now up to 11 home runs, 20 RBI and a .336 batting average in 41 games.
Baseball's midseason festivities go down across the Atlanta metro area, from Friday's HBCU Swingman Classic to Tuesday's All-Star Game.
The final participant in this year's Home Run Derby was announced Thursday evening, and the New York Yankees will officially have a player partaking in the event. Jazz Chisholm Jr. was revealed Thursday night as the eighth participant in the derby,
MLB announced the eight participants in Monday's Home Run Derby at Truist Park in Atlanta.The eight sluggers will square off using the same three-round format that was first implemented last year. In Round 1,
Acuña helped lead the Braves to a 9-2 win against the Athletics — just their third victory in 13 games — a day after an embarrassing 10-1 series-opening loss. The Braves hit a season-high five homers, with others from Drake Baldwin, Austin Riley and Marcell Ozuna, who hit his first in 22 games, since June 13.
Arthur Darensburg knew what he could do. Even though he was coming off little sleep. Even though his team’s flight from Dallas to Atlanta took off at 5 a.m. that day. He had to run the bases in less than 14.
Brent Rooker doesn’t plan to change his approach at the plate for the Home Run Derby. “I mean, look, just about every swing I’ve ever taken in my life I’ve been trying to hit a home run,” the Athletics slugger said.