How Juan Soto won the 2022 MLB Home Run Derby: Highlights and analysis
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First-round matchups | No. 6 Julio Rodríguez: 32, No. 3 Corey Seager: 24 | No. 2 Pete Alonso: 20, No. 7 Ronald Acuña Jr.: 19
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No. 4 Juan Soto 18, No. 5 José Ramírez: 17 | No. 8 Albert Pujols 20, No. 1 Kyle Schwarber 19
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Semifinal matchups | No. 6 Julio Rodríguez: 31, No. 2 Pete Alonso: 23 | No. 4 Juan Soto 16, No. 8 Albert Pujols 15
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Championship matchup | No. 4 Juan Soto: 19, No. 6 Julio Rodríguez: 18 (Photo: Jayne Kamin-Oncea / USA Today)
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Juan Soto is a deserving winner, but Julio Rodríguez truly stole the show in tonight’s Derby. If you didn’t know his name before, you know it now.
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Rodríguez hit 81 total homers — 32 in the first round, 31 in the semis, 18 in the final. "Amazing, amazing," Soto said of Rodríguez.
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Soto walks it off with four homers in bonus time to knock off the rookie Julio Rodríguez in the final, 19 homers to 18. Someone should trade for that man.
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