The 2017 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby was a

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. On July 5, the participants were announced.

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won, becoming the first rookie to win the event outright.

Rules

Eight players participated in the derby in a bracket-style, single-elimination timed event. Each player had four minutes to hit as many home runs as possible. Hitters were awarded an additional 30 seconds if they hit two home runs over . Hitters were also allowed one 45 second timeout to stop the clock (two in the finals). Homers hit off a

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Ball during the final minute resulted in a $10,000 donation to charity by T-Mobile & MLB, to the

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. The eight competing players were seeded 1-8 based on their home run totals. The higher seed hit second in any round, and the round ended if the higher seed surpassed the total of the first hitter. In the event of a tie, three sets of tiebreakers are employed: first, a 90-second swing-off (with no timeouts nor bonus time awarded); second, each player got three swings; whoever hit more home runs in the three swings would be declared the winner; thereafter, sudden death swings would occur until the tie was broken.

Results

References

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