SEATTLE — If you're a fan of dingers, longballs, moon shots, four-baggers, blasts, bombs, big flies, no-doubters, taters, jacks or just regular ol' home runs, oh boy, do we have an event for you.
Since he debuted in 2019, no one has hit more home runs in Major League Baseball than Pete Alonso. No one. Not even Aaron Judge.
Back then, the format was different; each contestant got a certain number of “outs” instead of a time limit. Alonso’s Derby career — two wins, three appearances prior to 2023 — has all come in the timed era, an evolution that has made the Derby more compelling and more exhausting.
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