{"id":786983,"date":"2026-07-07T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786983\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T22:28:09","slug":"ben-rice-will-participate-in-home-run-derby-looking-to-become-new-york-yankees-first-winner-since-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/786983\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Rice will participate in Home Run Derby, looking to become New York Yankees&#8217; first winner since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> slugger <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ben-rice-893305\/1318485\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/ben-rice-893305\/1318485\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Rice<\/a> will be swinging for the fences in Philadelphia on July 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rice, who leads the Yankees with 25 homers this season, announced Tuesday that he will be participating in the Home Run Derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019ll look to become the first Yankees player to win the derby since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/aaron-judge\/549847\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/aaron-judge\/549847\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Judge<\/a> in 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Rice said on social media that his father, Dan, who was a pitcher on Brown\u2019s baseball team in the 1980s, will throw to him. Rice said they\u2019ve already been practicing for the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Rice has 58 homers over his first three seasons in the majors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the second straight a year a Yankees player will appear in the Home Run Derby. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jazz-chisholm-jr\/919327\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/jazz-chisholm-jr\/919327\" target=\"_blank\">Jazz Chisholm Jr.<\/a> entered last year but was eliminated in the first round. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Judge is one of four Yankees players to win the Home Run Derby. The others are Tino Martinez (1997), Jason Giambi (2002) and Robinson Can\u00f3 (2011).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tampa Bay\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/junior-caminero\/1358467\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/junior-caminero\/1358467\" target=\"_blank\">Junior Caminero<\/a> also is participating in the event. The full field has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York Yankees slugger Ben Rice will be swinging for the fences in Philadelphia on July 13. Rice,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-786983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}