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ATLANTA — One of baseball’s biggest nights has arrived.

Eight sluggers swing for the fences at Truist Park in Major League Baseball’s 2025 Home Run Derby, battling to add their names to the list of past champions that include some of the game’s all-time greats.

Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh enters the Derby as the favorite, with his MLB-leading 38 home runs at the All-Star break just one short of Barry Bonds’ first-half mark from 2001 – the year he went on to set the single-season home run record.

Other participants at Truist Park are the Pirates’ Oneil Cruz, Nationals’ James Wood, Braves’ Matt Olson, Athletics’ Brent Rooker, Twins’ Byron Buxton, Rays’ Junior Caminero and Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr.

Last year’s champion was Teoscar Hernández, who became the first Dodgers player to win the contest.

Who’s going to put on a show in Georgia tonight? Follow along for live updates from Truist Park:

The 2025 MLB Home Run Derby begins at 8 p.m. ET from Truist Park in Atlanta.

How to watch Home Run Derby

TV channel: ESPN
Live stream: Fubo

(Home run totals at the All-Star break)

ATLANTA — When Cal Raleigh steps to the plate for his first swing at the Home Run Derby, his past, present and future coalesce. Pitching is his father Todd, the former Western Carolina and Tennessee coach, the man who dragged young Cal along to practices and batboy opportunities and built a workout facility at their North Carolina home.

And catching is Todd “T” Raleigh, Raleigh’s 15-year-old brother whose games he tries to attend when his Seattle Mariners travels take him to back to the Deep South, who dons the hand-me-down cleats big brother bequeaths. – Gabe Lacques

Odds via BetMGM as of 12 p.m.

Cal Raleigh: +280
Oneil Cruz: +350
James Wood: +400
Matt Olson: +900
Brent Rooker: +900
Byron Buxton: +950
Junior Caminero: +1000
Jazz Chisholm Jr.: +1500

The 2025 Home Run Derby features three rounds: the first round, semifinals and finals.

In the first round, the hitters have three minutes or 40 pitches (whichever comes first) to hit as many home runs as they can. Each player gets a bonus period that lasts until they take three swings that don’t result in a homer. If a home run of 425 feet or longer is hit during the bonus time, the hitter gets a fourthout

The four players with the highest totals advance to the semifinals – with first-round ties being broken by the player who hit the longest home run in their round.

The semifinals becomes a knockout format, with players seeded Nos. 1-4 based on their first-round totals. Players have two minutes or 27 pitches in the semifinals and finals. Ties in the semifinal are broken by a 60-second “swing-off.”

Each batter gets one 45-second timeout – but timeouts be called during bonus periods or tiebreakers.

Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez was crowned 2024 Home Run Derby champion after defeating Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. in the finals.

Hernandez slugged 14 homers in the final round, one more than Witt, to become the first Dodgers player to win the Derby title.