Brent Rooker Enters 2025 MLB HR 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.
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.
Here's everything that you need to know about watching this year's MLB All-Star Week, including a complete schedule with TV and streaming information for events.
Players participating in All-Star Week will be treated to first-class service. All players participating in the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby will receive six complimentary tickets for guests, a first-class flight for themselves and two guests as well as first-class hotel accommodations for themselves and two guests.
Alonso won the Home Run Derby in 2019, but his 2021 performance at Coors Field to repeat as champion was his best in a stretch of five-straight appearances. The Mets slugger led each of the three rounds in homers and totaled 74 home runs overall, well above runner-up Trey Mancini's 58 in the contest.
This year's Home Run Derby lacks the star power of year's past, but there is an intriguing dark horse who has become the favorite to win.
Will MLB Invite This Yankee to Join the HR Derby? He Would Say Yes originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Jazz Chisholm Jr. might have a busier All-Star weekend in Atlanta than he expected. He told reporters yesterday that he would be up for competing in the Home Run Derby, given that the league extends him the invitation.