{"id":222950,"date":"2026-06-19T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222950\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T05:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:30:07","slug":"mlb-eliminating-clock-for-all-star-home-run-derby-in-philadelphia-as-event-switches-to-netflix-from-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222950\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB eliminating clock for All-Star Home Run Derby in Philadelphia as event switches to Netflix from ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball&#8217;s Home Run Derby is eliminating the clock.<\/p>\n<p>Each hitter will have 20 swings in the first round of this year&#8217;s contest at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/2026-mlb-all-star-game-philadelphia-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia&#8217;s Citizens Bank Park<\/a> on July 13, Major League Baseball said Thursday. The change coincides with a switch in broadcaster to Netflix from ESPN, which had televised the event since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>A player who homers on swing 20 will keep on swinging until he doesn&#8217;t connect for a long ball. The top four hitters advance, with the distance of the longest homer used as a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n<p>Hitters will be seeded for the second round, where No. 1 faces 4 and 2 meets 3. <\/p>\n<p>Each player takes 15 swings in the second round, with batters again homering on their final swing, continuing until not homering. A best-of-three swing-off would break ties.<\/p>\n<p>The format for the second round will be used for the final.<\/p>\n<p>No bonus rounds will be used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball&#8217;s Home Run Derby is eliminating the clock. Each hitter will have 20 swings in the first round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[73298,11199,12647,69,71,70,726],"class_list":["post-222950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-horse-racing","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}