New York Mets’ Pete Alonso beats Baltimore Orioles’ Trey Mancini in the final round to reclaim the Derby Home Run title

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DENVER – New York Mets footballer Pete Alonso became the third consecutive Derby Home Run champion, defeating the first baseman of the Baltimore Orioles Tree Mancini in the final round Monday night in front of a sold-out electric crowd at Coorsfield.

Mancini, who spent the 2020 season undergoing chemotherapy after being diagnosed with colon cancer, entered with the second longest odds of winning the event. But he beat Oakland Athletics senior captain Matt Olson and Colorado Rockies short-lived Trevor Storey to advance to the final round, where he made 22 home runs.

Alonso followed Mancini in the final, scoring four runs in his first six flips. He was 12 years old when he took a timeout with 36 seconds remaining in the first two minutes. He produced five more, hit 17 seconds and entered 60 seconds of his overtime, then hit another six within the next 29 seconds to finish with 23 home runs and take the trophy, along with a bejeweled contract.

Alonso also racked up 23 home runs to defeat Toronto Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the final round of the 2019 event. Last year’s All-Star Game and related celebrations were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Washington FC star Juan Soto of the Los Angeles Angels two-way shooter Shohei Ohtani, the event’s main lead and number one seed, was eliminated after an exhilarating first round that included two tiebreaks and 61 home runs, 10 of which traveled over 500 feet.

Ohtani started slow, producing one home run in his first 16 flips. But he rallied late – thanks in part to an impromptu phone call from fellow Angels teammate Mike Trout – and hit two home runs during the final 10 seconds of his run to equal Soto’s original total of 22. They each followed six home runs in the tiebreak for one minute. But Soto went 3 for 3 in the swing that followed while Ohtani made a solid scorer to the right, ending his night.

This year’s derby — a three-round, eight-man, arc-style tournament with timed rounds — was staged on the sport’s most famous soccer field, with baseballs not stowed in humidors trying to normalize the mile. High environment.

The first round showed it.

It spawned 208 home runs, three of which surpassed the previous derby record of 513 feet, set by New York Yankees star Aaron Judge in 2017. Statcast began tracking home running distances six years ago.

Ohtani hit 15 home runs that cut 475 feet, and Soto hit one 520 feet on the third in the center right. Kansas City’s Salvador Perez racked up 28 home runs, the most ever by Musk, and barely had a chance to advance from the first round. He lost to Alonso, who scored 35 home runs, the third most in any derby round.

Three of the four first round matches fell into the wire. Olson was behind Mancini by one, and his last swing made a deep push into right field that caused a hooked foul. Falling behind, Texas Rangers player Joey Gallo was shy of pegging Storey, but his last swing with the time remaining produced a volley that fell shy of the center court fence.

Storey, who is expected to trade before the end of the month, reached just 12 second-round holders, a total that Mancini overtook with relative ease.

One shy of tying Soto’s second-round total of 15, Alonso called the timeout with just over a minute left, refused the water, turned to rattle the crowd, kept moving his head to the music and immediately hit two majestic houses running to advance to the Tour final.

He finished with a total of 74 home runs and joined Ken Grieve Jr. (1998-99) and Eoannis Cespedes (2013-14) in winning back-to-back titles.

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