Reds slugger Frazier wins Home Run Derby

“This was the story of Todd Frazier, hometown hero, winning the most dramatic Home Run Derby ever staged, on a Monday evening no one in Cincinnati will ever forget”.

“No pressure here with these fans, ” Frazier said, after accepting the championship trophy to one more standing ovation.

Frazier became the first host player to win the slugging contest since Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs in 1990.

“It made for a little more opportunity”, Frazier said. That left him to wait for Frazier, who hit last.

“I had some unfinished business”, Frazier told The Cincinnati Enquirer’s Jon Fay.

Perhaps the best part of the Home Run Derby is that the game’s biggest stars are competing. With that as his target and with time winding down, Frazier laced a pitch into the left field stands for his 10th homer of the semis.

He won all three of his head-to-head matchups on his last swing, earlier beating Prince Fielder and Josh Donaldson.

Lastly, if players hit two home runs over 435 feet, they were rewarded with 30 extra seconds, which Frazier used to win the event.

The third baseman had been gearing up for the derby all season.

Donaldson hit a fair number of pop ups in the second round, which lowered his amount of swings as the pitcher couldn’t throw the next pitch until the ball hit the ground. This year, the format was changed to timed rounds in lieu of having a players making outs determine the end of an at-bat.

The lawsuit filed on behalf of an Oakland A’s fan and other season ticket-holders throughout the major leagues does not ask for money.

Frazier, also a former Toms River High School South baseball star, will be the starting third baseman for the National League in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game on Tuesday. Pederson also smashed the longest home run of the night which measured 387′. The New Jersey native didn’t know that the song would be played.

There were 159 homers hit in Monday’s derby. Thirteen, in those Derbies now usually gets you past. “I think the weather made it even more of a positive”.

“We’ve had a wonderful time”, Cindy Cate said. Batters weren’t risking any injury trying to hit the ball hard and took timeouts when necessary. Cubs catcher Kyle Schwarber, a Reds fan who grew up in nearby Middletown, was the MVP of the Futures Game on Sunday with a two-run triple. It was. 252 at the break last year, the lowest since 1972, the year before the American League adopted the designated hitter.