{"id":475176,"date":"2025-07-14T23:20:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/oneil-cruz-ties-historical-record-with-513-foot-home-run-in-the-2025-derby\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T23:20:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:20:59","slug":"oneil-cruz-ties-historical-record-with-513-foot-home-run-in-the-2025-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/oneil-cruz-ties-historical-record-with-513-foot-home-run-in-the-2025-derby\/","title":{"rendered":"Oneil Cruz ties historical record with 513-foot home run in the 2025 Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<em>ATLANTA \u2013<\/em> Dominican <strong>Oneil Cruz<\/strong> not only ignited the Truist Park crowd during the first round of the <em>Home Run Derby 2025<\/em>, but also made history. The slugger for the <strong>Pittsburgh Pirates<\/strong> hit a tremendous shot of <strong>513 feet<\/strong>, tying the record for the longest home run in Derby history <strong>outside of Coors Field<\/strong>, since Statcast began recording data in 2016.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/cal-raleigh-derrota-a-junior-caminero-y-se-corona-campeon-del-hr-derby-2025-en-atlanta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cal Raleigh defeats Junior Caminero and is crowned HR Derby champion 2025 in Atlanta<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nWith that blast, Cruz tied the <strong>2017 Aaron Judge<\/strong>, who achieved the same distance at loanDepot park in Miami. Cruz&#8217;s hit became the longest of any recent edition outside of Denver&#8217;s altitude, and <strong>surpassed by 40 feet the longest home run of the 2024 Derby<\/strong>, which was <strong>473 feet<\/strong>, courtesy of the also Dominican <strong>Marcell Ozuna<\/strong>.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">THINGS ARE GETTING OUT OF HAND \ud83e\udd2f<br><br>ONEIL CRUZ HITS THIS BASEBALL 513 FEET and 118 MPH \ud83d\ude80 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2mtVUCSyEn\">pic.twitter.com\/2mtVUCSyEn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLB\/status\/1944923623610831028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 15, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Impressive numbers in the first round:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>21 home runs<\/strong> Cruz hit<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Average distance:<\/strong> 447 feet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Total distance:<\/strong> 9,394 feet<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Highest exit velocity:<\/strong> 118 mph<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Average exit velocity:<\/strong> 107.9 mph<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Longest Home Runs in the Derby (outside of Coors Field \u2013 Statcast era):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Oneil Cruz (2025) \u2013 513 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Aaron Judge (2017) \u2013 513 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>At Coors Field (2021):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Juan Soto \u2013 520 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Trevor Story \u2013 518 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pete Alonso \u2013 514 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shohei Ohtani \u2013 513 feet<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA \u2013 Dominican Oneil Cruz not only ignited the Truist Park crowd during the first round of the Home Run Derby 2025, but also made history. The slugger for the Pittsburgh Pirates hit a tremendous shot of 513 feet, tying the record for the longest home run in Derby history outside of Coors Field, since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":972,"featured_media":475178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41303],"class_list":["post-475176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-thetruthpaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZC8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/20250714_231900.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Yamell Rossi","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-7a176880-76f8-4b0c-9527-4e34feef45e4-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/20250714_231900.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/972"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}