{"id":270471,"date":"2026-06-18T03:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270471\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T03:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:49:24","slug":"yankees-ben-rice-would-love-to-be-in-home-run-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/270471\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Ben Rice &#8216;would love&#8217; to be in Home Run Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Rice ranked second behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr. among American League first basemen in the first results of fan voting this week, so there\u2019s no guarantee he\u2019ll be in Philadelphia for the All-Star Game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Rice said Tuesday if he got the chance to participate in the Home Run Derby, he\u2019d accept.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I were to get asked to go, I would love to do it,\u2019\u2019 Rice said before the Yankees opened a series in The Bronx against the White Sox <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/16\/sports\/yankees-destroy-white-sox-to-continue-dominance-of-al-central\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with a 12-2 win<\/a>. \u201cI have not heard anything about it, but sure, I\u2019d be interested. I\u2019ve watched it every year. It would be fun.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rice then went out and hit his 20th homer of the season, as he trailed only Houston\u2019s Yordan Alvarez and Minnesota\u2019s Byron Buxton in the AL home run race.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ben Rice ranked second behind Vladimir Guerrero Jr. among American League first basemen in the first results of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[48671,128,104361,20,104362,9,24,321,63,319,428,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-270471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-ben-rice","tag-bronx","tag-home-run-derby","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}