{"id":747857,"date":"2026-07-10T06:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747857\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T06:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:39:20","slug":"phillies-bryce-harper-and-cardinals-jordan-walker-to-compete-in-home-run-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747857\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; Bryce Harper and Cardinals&#8217; Jordan Walker to compete in Home Run Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper and St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker will participate in the Home Run Derby in Philadelphia on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Harper and Walker join Boston\u2019s Willson Contreras, Kansas City\u2019s Jac Caglianone, Tampa Bay\u2019s Junior Caminero and the New York Yankees\u2019 Ben Rice in the competition at Citizens Bank Park. The other two participants haven\u2019t been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Harper, hitting .261 with 20 homers and 57 RBIs, was selected for his ninth All-Star Game as a Legend Pick for baseball\u2019s midsummer showcase. The 33-year-old slugger will try to become the fifth player to win multiple derby competitions. And Harper will try to do it in front of home fans \u2014 again. He last won it in 2018 in Washington while a member of the Nationals. <\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Walker is a first-time All-Star who is having a breakout season. He hit his 22nd homer on Thursday night. The 2020 first-round draft pick is batting .294 with an .893 OPS and an MLB-leading 73 RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be the eighth Cardinals player to compete in the competition, joining Jack Clark (1985), Ray Lankford (1997), Mark McGwire (1998-99), Jim Edmonds (2003), Albert Pujols (2003, 2007, 2009, 2022), Matt Holliday (2010-11) and Carlos Beltran (2012).<\/p>\n<p>A Cardinals player has never won the derby. The Phillies have had two winners: Bobby Abreu in 2005 and Ryan Howard the next year.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper and St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Jordan Walker will participate in the Home Run&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[7268,5,731,50581,141,1207,160,325,11189,21012,231,55783,11213,4679,4682,2123,5352,1026,3736,4,256,7094,62,1727,3838,144,25,28032,25231,185,673,67,4311,4310,409],"class_list":["post-747857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-cardinals","tag-albert-pujols","tag-baseball","tag-ben-rice","tag-bobby-abreu","tag-boston","tag-bryce-harper","tag-cardinals","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-horse-racing","tag-jac-caglianone","tag-jack-clark","tag-jim-edmonds","tag-jordan-walker","tag-junior-caminero","tag-kansas-city","tag-mark-mcgwire","tag-matt-holliday","tag-missouri","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-mo-state-wire","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-pa-state-wire","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-ray-lankford","tag-ryan-howard","tag-sports","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouiscardinals","tag-willson-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}