A thletics slugger Brent Rooker put on a show in Monday's Home Run Derby, slugging 17 home runs as the second participant and being the one that had to set the bar for the six batters that would swing after him. Three would clear his bar, two would fall short, and Cal Raleigh would end up with 17 of his own.

Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby.

Several hours before the end of Tuesday’s Home Run Derby in Atlanta, I discovered the motivotion for winning the thing for at least two of the eight participants was something that cost $14.41 (incud...