With the Home Run Derby a few days away, I was thinking about my favorite moments from the evenඣt over the years. One that always, always, always comes to mind is the 2002 derby in Milwaukee, and the spectacle that Sammy Sosa put ꦏon.
Turns out, that was 22 years ago today!
Look, I know that a lot of what Sammy accomplished is now subject to dissection and unhappiness among some quarters of the fan base, but the things he did (juice or no juice) were frequently just nuts.
To that end, I’m going to sit here and watch the highlights from Sammy Sosa’s 2002 Home Run Derby appearance in Miller Park, which was an absolute joke. You know the park well enough to know how impossible it is to hit the ball some of the places he hit it … and he did. It’s just joke shot after joke shot. He hit FIVE of them over 500 feet.
A longer look at his shots:
