Cal Raleigh won the All-Star home run derby, the first catcher to do so.

“Usually, the guy that’s leading the league in homers doesn’t win the whole thing,” Raleigh said. “That’s as surprising to me as anybody else.”

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It turned out to be a low total HR derby, and there was a bit of controversy in the first round, won on a tie breaker by Raleigh against Brent Rooker:

Raleigh was almost eliminated in Round 1 when he and Athletics outfielder Brent Rooker tied with 17 home runs, but the M’s slugger won the tiebreaker by the slimmest of margins, as his longest home run traveled 470.61 feet to Rooker’s 470.53.

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Meanwhile, Rooker expressed confusion over his final moments in Round 1, when each player was given 40 pitches and three minutes to hit home runs.

“They told me before I went up there that I could take two pitches, but I didn’t know when they told me that there were only 40 balls already in the crate,” Rooker said. “So, I took two pitches that didn’t count, but when we went to do the round, there was only 38 remaining. So, we got down to having two pitches with five seconds left and they’re out of baseballs.”

There are still a few bugs in the system.

Raleigh predicted he would win the home run derby as a child, and here’s the video to prove it.