After falling to Pete Alonso in the semi-finals of last year’s home run derby, national player Juan Soto came back for victory after hitting in 2022. Today we will discuss about Homerun Derby 2022: Bracket| Results| Winners| Highlights
Homerun Derby 2022: Bracket| Results| Winners| Highlights
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No. 4 Seed: Juan Soto, Nationals: 19 Final Homer (Champ)
As the high seed, Soto had to sit back and Rodriguez set the mark to beat with 18 homers, which Jose Ramírez posted against him in the first round. Soto started slow again, not hitting a homer for 45 seconds, but then found another level with 10 homers in the span of 12 swings before taking his timeout. He returned still hot and crushed 15 by the end of regulation. Soto quickly got the four he needed to lift the crown, tossing his bat after winning the 2022 T-Mobile home run derby. At 23 years, 266 days old, Soto won just one day less than tying Juan González as the youngest winner in Derby history.
Bracket
Juan Soto, one of the best hitters in Major League Baseball, resumed his already long run on Monday night. The 23-year-old national star won the 2022 MLB home run derby by defeating Mariners rookie Julio Rodriguez in the final. This is the first Derby title for Soto, which has been the subject of trade rumors in recent days.
Rodriguez had an outside party before running into Soto in the final. He ended Pete Alonso’s search for a three-point finish in the second round. Alonso won the competition in 2019 and 2021 (there was no home run derby in 2020) and wanted to be the first player to win three consecutive derbys. Alonso, however, could not match Rodriguez’s 31 homers.
Results
No. 6 Julio Rodriguez (32 homers) beat No. 3 Corey Seeger (24 homers)
No. 2 Pete Alonso (20 homers) beat No. 7 Ronald Acua Jr. (19 homers)
No. 4 Juan Soto (18 homers) beat No. 5 Jose Ramirez (17 homers)
No. 8 Albert Pujols (20 homers) beat No. 1 Kyle Schwarber (19 homers) in a tiebreaker
second stage
Julio Rodriguez (31 homers) beat Pete Alonso (24 homers)
Juan Soto (16 homers) beat Albert Pujols (15 homers).
Winners
The contest was the latest event in the jam-packed schedule leading up to Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game (8 p.m. ET on Fox and the Fox Sports app). Festivities began this weekend as baseball’s best prospects dazzled in Saturday’s MLB All-Star Futures game, followed by the 2022 MLB Draft starting Sunday.
Seeding for the opening round was based on the number of homers hit by each player this season as of 13 July. The bracket was: No. 1 Kyle Schwarber vs. No. 8 Albert Pujol, No. 2 Pete Alonso vs No. 7 Ronald Acuna Jr., No. 3 Corey Seeger vs No. 6 Julio Rodriguez and No. 4 Juan Soto vs No. 5 Jose Ramirez.
