Gonzalez: I have him shocking everybody by defeating Schwarber, the NL's home run leader, in the first round. Make that 8-0. Nomar Mazara: 505 feet, June 21, 2019, vs. CWSAfter crushing a a 482-foot shot on Opening Day in '19, Mazara topped himself for the Statcast record with a colossal smash against the White Sox. Juli-ooo!! Everyone knows Judge has power, but 438 feet worth of opposite-field power is something else. Setting aside those of the inside-the-park variety, the shortest possible distance for a home run in a major league stadium resides at Fenway Park, where the "Pesky Pole" sits only 302 feet down the right field line. Pitches that low and lower are typically swung at only 1.0 percent of the time, and they're hit for just a .019 average. Facing lefty Zach Duke, Ramirez pulled a ball 447 feet into left field for a homer. To celebrate the midsummer festivities, we asked ESPN MLB experts Alden Gonzalez, Buster Olney, Jeff Passan and David Schoenfield for their pre-Derby predictions and post-Derby takeaways. Soto has been scorching hot this month and will dethrone Pete Alonso in the finals. After bashing 30-plus home runs in each of the first two rounds on Monday night, Rodriguez looked a little gassed when he hit just 18 homers to start the final -- and it cost him. So why are we including it? They've also produced only 316 extra-base hits, and to call many of those "hits" (see here, here,hereand here) is putting it charitably. 1-seeded Schwarber in the first round, Pujols' final Derby appearance came to an end when he was outhomered by Soto -- setting up a Soto-Rodriguez final showdown. Pujols crushed his record home run 459 feet off Taylor Rogers in a July 4 Angels-Twins game back in 2017. But after advancing past No. He hasn't been, well, Albert Pujols, because his bat speed is no longer quick enough to adjust to the cartoonish velocities of today's game; it has nothing to do with his raw power. "Balls with that trajectory, for a lot of guys it doesn't go out. 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Seager will return to his former home ballpark for the first time as a Ranger on Monday looking to send even more pitches into the Dodger Stadium bleachers. It was part of a three-homer game for the first baseman. Ads help us pay RotobBaller's award-winning writers as much as possible they are vital to the site's operations and team. Cubs up 6-0. To use drag and highlight the pitches or batted balls you want to include and it'll automatically update the stats at the bottom of the page. No three-Pete, but shoutout to Pete Alonso, an all-time # . Don't have an account? The goal of the Home Run Derby is to hit the most homers, but this years group of contestants has a track record of posting incredible distances on their long balls, too. Yeah, thats not where baseballs are supposed to land.. The 459-foot blast was Pujols longest of the Statcast era. Connecting with another scorching 118.6-mph exit velocity, Judge reached the back of the concourse in left-center to leave the Yankee Stadium crowd -- and his own teammates -- shaking their heads in disbelief. Fans watching at home scoffed at the estimate from Statcast. 440+ ft. One hop off the #CPD van and down Kenmore. MLBis careful to state that Statcasts data are estimates, but thats not how they actually sell it. With the count in his favor at 1-2, Detroit Tigers left-hander Kyle Ryan missed his spot with a changeup that a more patient hitter would have taken for a ball. Statcast, which was created in 2015, gives us a precise measurement of just how far those homers would travel. Two years ago, we marked the 20th anniversary of Glenallen Hills celebrated (pre-Statcast)rooftop home run, by giving an educated guess as to its true distance. (tie) Ronald Acua Jr.: 495 feet, Sept. 25, 2020, vs. BOSAcua had already proven his power had matured to another level when he went 473 feet off Yankees ace Gerrit Cole earlier in the 2020 season. Bryant isn't likely to see a surge in value if traded, so it might be best for fantasy managers to take advantage of the hype once he is moved and do the same. He hits balls that just keep carrying. (tie) Jess Snchez: 496 feet, May 30, 2022 vs. COLDespite Coors Field's long history of majestic home runs, Snchez's 496-footer is third in terms of distance -- while it represented the only run the Marlins scored in an otherwise run-of-the-mill 7-1 loss, there was nothing forgettable about this shot. BCB After Dark: A tale of two outfielders. It doesn't work that way, of course. Whoops. Not one of his long balls has been a 'no-doubter' which shouldn't be surprising for a guy whose game power grades out at 35. Edit:The Dodgers have acquired Trea Turner and activated Corey Seager as of July 30, which renders McKinstry irrelevant in fantasy altogether. Team; Services. Game on, Pete. This was accomplished on July 11th by Josh H. Smith of the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park. Who will hit the longest home run of the night and how far? Justin Carlson (@HickCar25) August 2, 2022 If you think fans, announcers and the Royals are just exaggerating how far. He got off to a slow start with just one home run in the first 56 seconds and had to call an early timeout. Guess who's on site today: The Kid himself. Judge was just one of many to rough up Orioles starter Chris Tillman in the Yankees' 16-3 rout, with a first-inning blast down the left-field line that clocked in with an exit velocity of 116 mph, his fastest speed off the bat this season, according to ESPN's Stats & Info. Unfortunately, he's staying put the rest of this season but his lineup support is also about to get worse if Whit Merrifield is traded to Seattle or somewhere else. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Judge followed up his first homer of the season with a high-flying blast in an 8-1 win against the Tampa Bay Rays. Most of the players on the field at Dodger Stadium encircled the future Hall of Fame first baseman and began to applaud. I can go 0-for-30 or J.P. [Crawford] can go 0-for-30 or Julio can go 30-for-30.". And New York came away with a lopsided 12-3 win after dropping 11 of 14. (OnlyHomers), Jack Suwinskis historic three-homer game. His longest of this round: 450 feet. And the longest: Schwarber is going to crack a 522-foot home run. Passan: He will have a better showing than expected, which is to say his first-round matchup against Schwarber will not end with Schwarber having a minute-plus left on the clock. . He's going to hit a bunch of low lasers into the left-center bleachers and, like Alonso in 2019, he's going to win it as a rookie -- knocking out Alonso in the semifinals and Schwarber in the final. One of the few D-backs not on the trade block, Rojas was looking like an overhyped sleeper a month into the season. Passan: In the afterglow of his victory Monday, Juan Soto took a deep, cleansing breath, unleashed a mighty exhale and said, "That was fun." It's also one of a very few hits, period, against pitches of at least 102 mph. According to ESPN's Stats & Info, Judge's home run was calculated at 448 feet, his fourth-longest of the season and his ninth this season of 425-plus feet, most in the majors in 2017. His average distance for those three homers was 443 feet. To wit, their batting average is a microscopic .014. Judge tied Joe DiMaggio's Yankees rookie record , set in 1936, by hitting his league-leading 29th home run against the Blue Jays. The Cubs outfielder homered in this loss. Another major trade candidate who makes the xHR leaderboard, this time on the flip side. Cron at Coors Field on September 9th. We knowanother email clouding up your inbox? Alonso gets knocked out by Rodriguez at 23 home runs. Stay up-to-date on new posts, giveaways, special deals, and more by signing up for our newsletter. Right center side of center field. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. Heres why you shouldnt always believe the Statcast home run distance numbers, Cubs 5, Mariners 3: A little bit of this, a little bit of that. It also happened in 2015 (41 homers, 90 RBI). Stat cast is broken on the south side that was farther than 452' Salvy!! The Padres are in it to win it. 8. So few Wrigley moonshots land unobstructed that what Dave pointed out is a valuable landmark. But in the end, he will get respect for having pushed the top seed but not the W he desires. Stats courtesy of Baseball Savant. I think it was further. 2. Not only did Schwarber get 473 feet of distance on his longest home run he also got four RBIs. This was accomplished by Ronald Acua Jr. Then with the Chicago Cubs, Schwarber launched a grand slam off Milwaukee Brewers starter Zach Davies on July 28, 2019. Two years ago, we concluded that KBs home run, hit to proper trajectory, would be well short, but Sammy Sosas well-attested 536-footer in 2003 might have scraped the bottom of the board, assuming the parabola is applicable. On June 30, Statcast laid an eighteen-inches-off-the-plate-called-strike-three whopper on us, and its time we recalcitrant old-schoolers had a whole lotta fun with it. Check out how accurate our experts were in their predictions, relive the biggest dramatic moments of the Derby and see what it all means going forward. Join the Best Live Fantasy Chat Community! Gambling problem? 4. We're asking for your help to make it through the offseason and ensure that we're here to cover baseball in the 2021 season and beyond. Thats the fewest dingers to lead Chicago in a single season since 1989. Pitches as far inside as the one that Castro hit are swung at by right-handed batters just0.1 percent of the time. Mets first baseman Pete Alonso slugged 40 homers with 27 doubles in 2022. Julio Rodriguez (32 home runs) defeats Corey Seager (24 home runs), Pete Alonso (20 home runs) defeats Ronald Acuna Jr. (19 home runs), Juan Soto (18 home runs) defeats Jose Ramirez (17 home runs), Albert Pujols (20 home runs) defeats Kyle Schwarber (19 home runs) in extra time, Julio Rodriguez (31 home runs) defeats Pete Alonso (22 home runs), Juan Soto (16 home runs) defeats Albert Pujols (15 home runs), Juan Soto (19 home runs) defeats Julio Rodriguez (18 home runs). 1 overall; Results and analysis for every first-round pick, 2022 MLB All-Star Game: Results and analysis from when baseball's biggest stars hit Hollywood. The 459-foot blast was Pujols' longest of the Statcast era. This was also his first career MLB homer. Now we have the game's next big star on center stage. The distance of each long fly is measured against every Major League ballpark to determine whether it would have cleared the fence or not. Hanging pitch? Eight of baseballs premier sluggers are kicking off MLBs All-Star festivities in Los Angeles with the Home Run Derby on July 18. (MLB Random Stats) On April 23rd, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Ozzie Albies both hit leadoff homers on the first pitch they saw. @JRODshow44's first big league homer went a LONG way! While it would intuitively make sense that going anywhere other than Colorado would hurt his power production, it might do the opposite. The New York Mets first baseman owns the longest in-game home run of any player competing in this years Derby. We would appreciate your support by either turning off your adblocker or signing up for our ad-free subscription tier.Thanks for being a reader! All Statcast data is current as of July 25, 2021 and data/graphs are taken from BaseballSavant.mlb.com, 12 HR - 20.1 xHR = 8.1 HR under expectation. Shohei Ohtani reaches upper deck in Seattle with 33rd. All Win Expectancy, Leverage Index, Run Expectancy, and Fans Scouting Report data licenced from TangoTiger.com. He pulled a 464-foot bomb against Humberto Mejia for his second home run of the game in a 3-0 win for Los Angeles. Juan Soto is your 2022 Home Run Derby champion after dueling it out with rookie Julio Rodriguez in a battle of the young bats Monday evening at Dodger Stadium. Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce went on a quest for a different kind of idol than the one Indiana Jones got in Raiders of the Lost Ark., Get in-depth, sideline coverage of Kansas City area sports - only $1 a month. Soto spent Monday afternoon begrudgingly answering questions about his hometown team potentially trading him over the next couple of weeks, and then he went out and showed the world why every executive throughout baseball is salivating at the possibility. With his victory over Seager, Rodriguez is the first Mariner to advance to the semifinals of the Derby since Griffey in 1998. For just $0.83/month, get an ad-free experience and access to RotoBaller's VIP Discord Chat Community, If you can't subscribe, please consider turning off your adblocker for RotoBaller.com, Progressing, Alex Reyes Not Throwing Off Mound, Royals Sign Jackie Bradley Jr. To Minor-League Deal, John Klingberg Kept Out Of Wednesday's Game, James van Riemsdyk Back In Action Wednesday, Continues To Chase Elusive Florida Victory, Jalen Carter Facing Two Misdemeanor Charges, Lions, Jamaal Williams Have Mutual Interest In Reunion, Matthew Fitzpatrick Looking To Get His Season Rolling At Bay Hill. Heres what each of the full seasons have looked like: This moonshot was provided by C.J. Not including the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, this was the sixth straight season with at least 5,000 dingers. It was a moment for all baseball fans: The game's next great star is here. (ESPN Stats & Info), A first in Los Angeles. Judge's third straight game with a home run perhaps showed that the rookie's emergence wasn't a fluke. Takeaways and our favorite moments from Dodger Stadium Skip to main content Skip to navigation > ESPN Search MLB Home Spring Training Scores. AZ, CO, CT, IL, IN, IA, KS, LA, (select parishes), MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, TN, VA, WV, WY, CA-ONT only.Eligibility restrictions apply. Including his, those swings have also produced a grand total of four hits. "Right now, I'm not even thinking about it," Soto told ESPN's Buster Olney on the field, after having the Derby chain placed around his neck by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny. On Monday, he will look to complete a three-peat. A crowd quickly swelled around him. Is your favorite star headed to Hollywood? Schoenfield: There have been only five home runs hit out of Dodger Stadium during an action game -- two by Willie Stargell and one each from Mark McGwire, Mike Piazza and Giancarlo Stanton. That's still the fastest pitch hit for a home run since the Statcast era began in 2015. The Seattle Mariners rookie outfielder crushed the milestone homer off fellow All-Star Sandy Alcantara on May 1. Then he beat Jose Ramirez, ousted Albert Pujols and reminded Julio Rodrguez that there's a long way to go until the Mariners outfielder can call himself the best young player from the Dominican Republic. Its official distance, naturally, was 302 feet. He'll crack a dozen in the first round, but Schwarber will knock him out. Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand. Going off older projected distance measurements, his farthest home run came 10 years earlier when he sent a Ryan Dempster pitch out of Wrigley Stadium all together. Odds & lines subject to change. The former of those figures qualifies Stanton's laser as having the lowest launch angle of any over-the-fence (i.e., not inside-the-park) home run since 2015. (MLB Random Stats), Andrew Vaughns two different kinds of history. The Texas Rangers All-Star set his career mark against the Diamondbacks on Sept. 26, 2021, one of his final regular season games as a Dodger. Though it predated Statcast, he also hit one at the 2014 Home Run Derby that traveled510 feet. Before his 60-second bonus time, he was only three away from Rodriguez's final round total. de los #Royals, Jorge Soler (11 HR's/34 RBI's) conect este domingo dos cuadrangulares frente al zurdo de #Detroit Tarik Skubal (ambos a ms de 420ft) siendo este su octavo juego multi home runs en su carrera en MLB y 1st desde el 8/8/2020 vs Minnesota!! While he occupies the eighth spot in the lineup most nights and this iteration of the Dodgers is a far cry from the championship team we saw last year, he might still draw interest from fantasy managers in need of a replacement at second base. pic.twitter.com/qgGGrfFYEH. No list of absurd home runs would be complete without at least one from Giancarlo Stanton. The longest of those was one of Stargell's at an estimated 506 feet. Does Seiya Suzukis injury give Matt Mervis a shot at the Opening Day roster? A home run, his 14th of the year into deep center field. Get Baseball Printables at The Daily Dingers Shop, Career Home Run Leaders: The Ultimate Guide, Postseason Home Run Leaders: The Definitive Guide, Single Season Home Runs: A Complete Guide, Home runs are down 23% compared to 2019. When Martinez turned on it, he hit a ball that was 49.7 degrees off his bat and which eventually landed 327 feet away. The left-handed slugger unloaded on a 94.7-mph fastball from Reynaldo Lpez and sent it soaring into the upper deck in right field at Globe Life Park in Arlington. Terms at draftkings.com/sportsbook. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. Midway through his round he was in trouble, struggling to find that perfect launch angle and instead hitting low liners that were falling short of the warning track. (Baseball-Reference), The Machine has some company. Its the first time thats happened with two players at the age of 21 or younger. But the same parabola, at 575 feet, nails it. The All-Star Game in Los Angeles is just around the corner. Getting it into that ivy backdrop is a long way. Having covered home runs hit at the steepest launch angles for 2021, it's worth taking note of extreme distances as well, particularly given that Wednesday night brought the season's longest. pic.twitter.com/UeoxyXHABp, Drian Bernal / ???? Our goal is to put out the highest-quality content and tools. Thats the second-longest average during the Statcast era. And to go over that, Ive never seen it. Juan Soto is your 2022 MLB Home Run Derby champ! Schoenfield: How about a passing of the torch? Here we break out our own system, which we have featured in several articles over several years. He was a rookie dripping with potential when he hit it, and that potential was realized when he led MLB in hard-hit balls and total bases in 2019. He does have one claim to fame, though. Its up to you to decide whether, after what Statcast hastaught us about trajectories, the extrapolation from 1921 has any validity. 27 was a two-run homer that capped a five-run sixth against White Sox reliever Jake Petricka, breaking open a 3-2 game. Check. Statcast does not allow for prevaling wind, and there was a stiff wind blowing out that evening, but hardly anything that would account for a 40-foot shortfall. Martinez (2017), and Nelson Cruz (2019). The Polar Bear got it during his historic rookie season when he smashed a 489-foot moonshot against Twins reliever Matt Magill on July 17, 2019. pic.twitter.com/1dxAMdZnBr. (Buster Olney), Mike Trout adds himself to another exclusive list. Al Yellon Patrick Wisdom with his 15th home run of the season. After hitting two Sunday, Judge kept at it Monday in Anaheim with his 22nd homer of the season. Cron -- even though he missed significant time with a torn ACL. He may have only hit 15 homers in 2022, but he sure did make them count. He joins Albert Pujols as the only players to have 35-plus homers and 25-plus doubles in three of their first four seasons. Using a known distance (the LFfoul line), we extrapolate the others we will do here, using simple math. No. For your further viewing pleasure, Stanton has also hit the fastest (121.7 mph in 2018) homer since 2015. With Gavin Luxon the IL along with the aforementioned Seager and Betts, McKinstry is going to get regular playing time for the foreseeable future at second base. After his earlier blast for distance, this one was a low line shot that he smoked to right to complete the Bombers' scoring in their 14-3 rout of Baltimore. However, his xSLG and xISO have gone down two straight seasons now rather than rebounding from 2020. Could Judge reach that by the end of the month? Justin De Fratus served up a 3-2 fastball at 91.8 mph, only to have Stanton send it back out at 13.5 degrees and118.5 mphoff the batfor a home run. McKinstry was hot to start the season, hitting .296 with three HR and 14 RBI in April and drew plenty of interest as a waiver pickup. (tie) Aaron Judge: 495 feet, June 11, 2017, vs. BALThe Bronx was still buzzing from Judge's record-setting 121.1-mph home run off Orioles starter Chris Tillman, but he further cemented one of the grandest rookie campaigns in history the next day with this incredible rocket off Baltimore righty Logan Verrett. It's the 1969 Mets of Home Run Derby results: Pujols moves on, hitting seven home runs in his one minute of extra time to knock out Schwarber. Mazara, who was already no stranger to tape-measure blasts, hit the ultimate shot -- a 505-foot wallop to right field that set a record for the longest dinger tracked by Statcast since the tracking technology launched in 2015. Among the tens of thousands of home runs hit during that period, only four others. New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge's prolific rookie season, and the home runs that come with it, have captivated fans across the country. Just like in the 2019 Home Run Derby, Alonso has the edge over Acua. With Rodriguez facing either Soto or Pujols in the finals, we are guaranteed our second all-Dominican final, matching 2010, when David Ortiz beat Hanley Ramirez. He's enjoying an 18.4% HR/FB rate that should decline. His 496-foot blast to left field was the longest home run hit by anybody since ESPN started recording homer distances in 2009, and it came in his first career four-hit game. * Stats Include Regular and Postseason 2022 Batters All Teams Minimum HR: 0 Update With 19 home runs in the final round -- and 53 total -- Soto became champion of the Home Run Derby by defeating the 21-year-old rookie Rodriguez, who put on an incredible performance himself that included amassing 32 home runs in Round 1 and defeating two-time reigning champion Alonso in Round 2. McKinstry doesn't have a huge homer total, but seven HR in 149 AB is promising and prorates to a 40-homer season with a full year worth of at-bats. We want to see Soto hit a ball 515 feet, and we will. From covering the World Series to the World Cup, Pete has done a little bit of everything since joining The Star in 1997. 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Garcia, however, took a whack and poked it 376 feetover the right field fence. According to ESPN's Stats & Info, Judge's home run was calculated at 448 feet, his fourth-longest of the season and his ninth this season of 425-plus feet, most in the majors in 2017. The Washington Nationals outfielder set his best mark with a 454-foot blast against the Colorado Rockies on Sept. 19, 2021. Anyone with bleacher seats at Dodger Stadium on Monday better bring a glove. Amid the chaos of his life, he had found peace in one thing that always is there for him, even as the world turns him into a dollar figure and a trade chip: swinging a baseball bat. Yeah right. (Christopher Kamka), 2022 MLB Home Run Leaders: Each Teams HR King, Most Consecutive Games With a Home Run: Top 35. He's improved since but not enough to qualify as having a successful season, although it would be hard to label anything around this team a success right now. Yet the then-Philadelphia Phillies outfielderhe was suspended for violating MLB's domestic violence policy and later designated for assignment in 2019still swung at the pitch and somehow sent it396 feet from home. This guy just continues to amaze us., Even Perez told The Stars Lynn Worthy: Its got to be more than that, come on guys.. On April 17th, a total of just 15 homers were hit across 14 MLB games. It was also his 10th home run of the season, which tied the rookie record for home runs in April. Not for Julio Rodriguez. Now, lets give the Statcast data for the two HRs, remembering that they extrapolate final distance for home runs, not necessarily where they first touch an obstruction. Now lets place the landing spots on the general image, and give our own distances for Wisdoms two home runs. Someone, or something, got one or both of the initial data points wrong. That was a bomb, a complete bomb, said Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus, who was on first base at the time of the home run. All of Judge's 6-foot-7 frame got behind this one. 47 6 thatphanom.techno@gmail.com 042-532028 , 042-532027 While the world waited for news of Trout's MRI on his injured hand, Judge took sole possession of the MLB lead in homers with his 17th, a bullet just to the right of dead center to bring the Yankees to within a run of the Orioles on Memorial Day. Some of us shed a few tears in that moment for Pujols. 5. So behold, here's one from Giancarlo Stanton. 603 for The Machine. If this doesnt feel like a lot to you, its because its the fewest number of players to slug at least 30 homers in a season since 2015. Bryant has rebounded well from last year's disaster but not to his previous levels. 8. We're not only going to see a few fly out of the ballpark during the contest, we're going to see a couple longer than 506. It's impressive no matter when he smacked it. They are then categorized as a No Doubter which would be a home run at every single park, Mostly Gonewhich could have been a homer at anywhere between 8-29 parks, or Doubter which would be gone at seven parks or fewer. Statcast Game Preview: Texas Rangers at San Diego Padres - 2023-03-01 | MLB.com Courtesy of ESPN Stats & Information research, we've captured every one of the first-year slugger's homers and the story that goes with it, from the victim on the mound to the speed off the bat. It wasn't a dominant round, but the dream for a three-peat lives on. ), Patrick Wisdom with his 15th home run of the season. Schoenfield: One and done. However, it was enough to keep us busy between April and November. Outside The Confines: Casualties of Spring Training. It's a wonder that Trumbo even swung at it, given that pitches that are more than 4.5 feet high have drawn swings only 1.4 percent of the time. The oldest player ever to compete in the Derby, Pujols might have been the sentimental favorite, but he was hardly the favorite to win a contest that rewards stamina as much as raw power. The xHR stat is actually one of the simpler Statcast metrics. Here is a transcript of their call of the home run in the Royals 2-1 win. It was really loud. Because of three numbers in this order: 5-1-0. The home run came just nine days after Alonso won his first Derby. That launch angle is the highest of any over-the-fence homer since 2015. (tie) Joey Gallo: 495 feet, July 20, 2018, vs. CLEGallo's moonshot is the most clutch homer on this list, as it came off Indians closer Cody Allen with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game. Statcast has him under 13 homers, which would move him out of the top-30 power hitters outside of the top 75. I am not convinced Salvy didn't just hit a 600 foot home run and big statcast just doesn't want the truth to get out there. (tie) Ryan McMahon: 495 feet, Aug. 9, 2022, vs. STLMcMahon crushed an 82 mph, low-and-inside changeup 495 feet for the longest home run by a Rockie in the Statcast era. Sam Haggerty of the Seattle Mariners accomplished this on July 14th. With 24 homers in his final season, it was Albert Pujols 21st year with 15-plus homers. How about the center-field scoreboard? This is a tale of two home runs, both hit June 30, by Patrick Wisdom, the first a dramatic grand slam [VIDEO].

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