Also: Home runs into the ocean?
The Bahamas hosted the fifth annual Don't Blink Home Run Derby, the capstone of a multi-day event hosted by natives Todd Isaacs Jr. and Lucius Fox. Looking for a way to highlight Bahamian baseball players and bring something back to their community, Isaacs and Fox turned to one of the game's most exciting aspects: the home run.
Of course, a home run derby has been done before. But not like this. Rather than hitting into and over an outfield, players stood on a stage that rested on a white-sand beach, sending their dingers into the clear-blue waters of Montagu Bay.
Waiting in the water were a group of jet skiers equipped with gloves and nets to retrieve the baseballs, taking Max Muncy's immortal quote "Go get it out of the ocean" literally. Behind a buoyed-off section that determined which balls were ruled homers was a barge, complete with a target and a crew that was eager to hype up the crowd with the horn when a player got close to hitting the vessel. |
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| Among those fishing baseballs out of the water at the Don't Blink Home Run Derby were Guardians right-hander Triston McKenzie and free-agent righty Touki Toussaint. |
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Relive this walk-off thriller -- Julio RodrÃguez and Eugenio Suárez homer twice! -- with added insight from Chris Young, Ron Darling and Scott Braun on MLB Network at 2 p.m. ET. |
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