{"id":11003,"date":"2025-07-15T06:46:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11003\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T06:46:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T06:46:23","slug":"jazz-chisholm-jr-finishes-last-in-home-run-derby-with-brutal-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/11003\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Chisholm Jr. finishes last in Home Run Derby with brutal showing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2014 Even 200 percent of Jazz Chisholm Jr. wouldn\u2019t have been enough on this night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm\u2019s 70 percent mentality did not pay off during a three-homer performance in the All-Star Home Run Derby, good for last in Monday\u2019s showcase at Truist Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal Raleigh knocked off first-round darling Oneil Cruz in the semifinals before defeating Junior Caminero in the finals for the crown, becoming the first catcher ever to win the event. The Mariners star, fresh off leading the majors in the first half with 38 home runs, mashed the most during the break, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chisholm, a second-time All-Star and first-time Derby participant, never got into a groove while hitting against his stepfather, Geron Sands, which of course does not matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36538323\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/jazz-chisholm-jr-13-new-108175795.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts during the Home Run Derby on July 14, 2025. \" class=\"wp-image-36538323\"  \/>Jazz Chisholm Jr. reacts during the Home Run Derby on July 14, 2025.  Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>The Bahamas boys made it to the Home Run Derby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit a fly ball to the infield or something like that or a foul ball back,\u201d Chisholm said. \u201cAnd I smiled to myself. I was like, \u2018Dang, we\u2019re actually doing this right now. We\u2019re actually hitting in the Home Run Derby. He\u2019s actually throwing to me.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Halfway through a round that was producing line drives and not home runs, Chisholm used his timeout and chatted with Aaron Judge and Max Fried.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36538324\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/new-york-yankees-jazz-chisholm-108175914.jpg\" alt=\"Jazz Chisholm Jr. swings during the Home Run Derby on July 14, 2025.\" class=\"wp-image-36538324\"  \/>Jazz Chisholm Jr. swings during the Home Run Derby on July 14, 2025.  AP<\/p>\n<p>The Captain approved of what he was seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, \u2018Hey, you didn\u2019t mess up your swing!\u2019\u201d Chisholm recalled with a smile.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That \u2014 and having fun and not getting hurt after an oblique strain earlier this season \u2014 was the goal of a slugger who became the first Yankee to participate since Judge and Gary S\u00e1nchez in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to keep my swing and hit homers instead of just hitting everything in the air,\u201d said Chisholm, who added he wants to swing in the derby again one day.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA \u2014 Even 200 percent of Jazz Chisholm Jr. wouldn\u2019t have been enough on this night.\u00a0 Chisholm\u2019s 70&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[9876,2009,363,369,99],"class_list":["post-11003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-home-run-derby","tag-jazz-chisholm","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}