2021 Home Run Derby: Perfect combination for history brewing at Coors Field

Don’t look now, but there is a perfect combination coming together for some history to be made at the 2021 Home Run Derby at Coors Field.

Here is why the 2021 Home Run Derby in Denver could make history.

With the announcement that the baseballs will not be stored in the stadium’s humidor, temperatures in Denver forecast to be in the low 90s with low humidity, plus eight of the biggest sluggers in baseball today stepping to the plate, it’s a very real possibility that some Derby history could happen at Coors Field on Tuesday night during the T-Mobile Home Run Derby.

We already know the bracket and we know the potential for some massive home runs that lie within each of the players. We also know that even physics professors are saying that one of the sluggers could well top the longest verified home run in Coors Field history, that being Giancarlo Stanton’s 504-foot blast during the 2016 campaign. Could that be Colorado’s own Trevor Story, who had a home run in 2018 that was originally measured at 505 feet but dialed back to 487 feet upon further review?

The longest home run in the Statcast era is currently Nomar Mazara’s 505-foot shot at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas, in 2019. That was during the regular season so anything hit at Coors Field during the Home Run Derby will have an asterisk along with it. Still, it’s very possible that a home run could travel further than Mazara’s during Monday’s event.

After all, it’s already happened … and history could well repeat itself. During the 1998 Home Run Derby at Coors Field, Mark McGwire launched a ball an estimated 510 feet, so the 504-foot mark has already been topped. The question becomes how far could Shohei Ohtani, the Derby’s top seed and Major League home run leader, hit a ball during the Derby. He’s already shown his power once at Coors Field during a regular season visit to Denver in 2018.

So whether you will be at Coors Field watching the event in person and sitting in front of your television, be prepared for what could be one of the most entertaining and eye-popping Home Run Derby exhibitions in All-Star Game history. The conditions are coming together perfectly for it.