Home Run Derby: Second round results and bracket

The second round of the Home Run Derby is in the books and there was plenty of long-ball to be had in what was without a doubt the more exciting of the two rounds so far.

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Here’s a breakdown of how the new rules of the first round will work. The player with the highest total in each league will get a bye to the third round. The players who hit the second and third-most home runs in each league will advance to second round which will will be a head-to-head matchup the same as the first round was. The winner of the second round will advance to play the player who earned the bye and that matchup will produce a head-to-head final with the player from the other side of the bracket.

There was rain delay, extra bonus rounds and long at-bats that helped make the first round a lot longer than we thought it would be but the action was pretty interesting once we got into round two. Todd Frazier went bananas after hitting just two home runs in the first round but Troy Tulowitzki gave him a run for his money.

Here’s a look at the third round bracket and who clinched the first-round byes.

The third rounds should go a little faster but so far the new system of doing things seems to be working pretty well. Had we not endured a near hour-long rain delay, the derby might actually be over by now — but who really wants that to happen?