ATLANTA -- ESPN.com tracked every hitter and charted their long-ball prowess during Monday's home run derby. While Sammy Sosa won the event in a landslide, here's a rundown of who went deep and how often they did so during the competition:
| FIRST ROUND |
| Hitter |
HRs |
ESPN.com goes deep |
| Edgar Martinez |
2 |
Edgar just didn't have his power stroke going as he hit just two home runs. |
| Chipper Jones |
2 |
The hometown hero started out fast, but didn't keep it going. Chipper hit two homers in his first four swings, but none after that. |
| Carl Everett |
6 |
Everett blasted two out of the park in his first four swings and took over the lead two swings later. He went on to smack three more to take a commanding lead. But that was before Sammy Sosa stepped to the box. |
| Vladimir Guerrero |
2 |
Vlad wowed the crowd early with two monumental blasts, but that's all he could muster in closing out his round with just two. |
| Ivan Rodriguez |
1 |
Pudge just never got it going though he did hit a couple to the warning track. |
| Sammy Sosa |
6 |
On his third swing, Slammin' Sammy went to the upper deck in left field, hitting it an estimated 496 feet. He smacked five more, tying Everett for the lead. |
| Carlos Delgado |
5 |
After starting out slow, Delgado hit three in a row midway through his round before adding two more homers later in the round. |
| Ken Griffey Jr. |
6 |
Junior didn't waste any time, going deep on his first swing. He kept it going throughout adding five more homers to move on to the semifinals. |
| SEMIFINALS |
| Hitter |
HRs |
ESPN.com goes deep |
| Sammy Sosa |
11 |
Sammy went deep early and often and lit up the Atlanta night with two monumental blasts on his sixth and 10th homers of the round. His longest blast was one that carried an estimated 508 feet to the upper deck in left field. |
| Carl Everett |
6 |
Everett had his power stroke going, but it was no match for Sosa's incredible effort as he fell five short of advancing to the finals. |
| Carlos Delgado |
1 |
Delgado ran into a power outage as many of the balls he hit fell just short of leaving the park. |
| Ken Griffey Jr. |
3 |
Junior got a late start, but did just enough to beat out Delgado and advance to the finals. |
| FINALS |
| Hitter |
HRs |
ESPN.com goes deep |
| Sammy Sosa |
9 |
Sosa stole the show by hitting four straight homers to begin the second stage of this round. He later topped it all off with his second 508-foot blast of the night on his ninth and final homer. |
| Ken Griffey Jr. |
2 |
Griffey just couldn't match the power of Sosa, falling well short of claiming his third straight home run derby title. |
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