{"id":20054,"date":"2025-07-18T22:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20054\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T22:45:14","slug":"cal-raleighs-home-run-derby-win-boosts-espn-ratings-by-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/20054\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh’s Home Run Derby win boosts ESPN ratings by 5%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul 15, 2025, 06:00 PM ET<\/p>\n

ATLANTA — Big Dumper helped drive a big boost to ratings for Monday night’s Home Run Derby.<\/p>\n

ESPN said Tuesday that viewership for Cal Raleigh<\/a>‘s Home Run Derby victory was up 5% from 2024, according to Nielsen ratings. Raleigh’s win over fellow finalist Junior Caminero<\/a> of Tampa Bay<\/a> drew an average audience of 5,729,000 viewers, up from 5,451,000 viewers in 2024 when Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> slugger Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> topped Bobby Witt Jr<\/a>. in the finals.<\/p>\n

ESPN says the combined audience on ESPN and ESPN2 peaked with 6,307,000 viewers at 9:30 p.m. ET. That made the Home Run Derby one of the most-watched programs of the day, including all broadcast and cable choices.<\/p>\n

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Raleigh’s father, Todd, was his personal pitcher for the event. The Seattle catcher’s 15-year-old brother, Todd Jr., was his catcher. The elder Raleigh is a former coach of Tennessee and Western Carolina.<\/p>\n

Raleigh, 28, leads the majors with 38 homers and 82 RBIs and is the American League’s starting catcher in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

Raleigh became the second Mariners player to win the Derby, following three-time winner Ken Griffey Jr., who was on the field, snapping photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 15, 2025, 06:00 PM ET ATLANTA — Big Dumper helped drive a big boost to ratings for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-20054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054","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=20054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}