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07/09 23:12 CDT Phillies' Bryce Harper and Cardinals' Jordan Walker latest
confirmed participants in Home Run Derby
Phillies' Bryce Harper and Cardinals' Jordan Walker latest confirmed
participants in Home Run Derby
By The Associated Press
Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper and St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan
Walker will participate in the Home Run Derby in Philadelphia on Monday night.
Harper and Walker join Boston's Willson Contreras, Kansas City's Jac
Caglianone, Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero and the New York Yankees' Ben Rice in
the competition at Citizens Bank Park. The other two participants haven't been
announced.
Harper, hitting .261 with 20 homers and 57 RBIs, was selected for his ninth
All-Star Game as a Legend Pick for baseball's midsummer showcase. The
33-year-old slugger will try to become the fifth player to win multiple derby
competitions. And Harper will try to do it in front of home fans --- again. He
last won it in 2018 in Washington while a member of the Nationals.
The 24-year-old Walker is a first-time All-Star who is having a breakout
season. He hit his 22nd homer on Thursday night. The 2020 first-round draft
pick is batting .294 with an .893 OPS and an MLB-leading 73 RBIs.
He'll be the eighth Cardinals player to compete in the competition, joining
Jack Clark (1985), Ray Lankford (1997), Mark McGwire (1998-99), Jim Edmonds
(2003), Albert Pujols (2003, 2007, 2009, 2022), Matt Holliday (2010-11) and
Carlos Beltran (2012).
A Cardinals player has never won the derby. The Phillies have had two winners:
Bobby Abreu in 2005 and Ryan Howard the next year.
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