On Monday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Teoscar Hernández made Dodgers history when he won the 2024 T-Mobile Home Run Derby. An exhilarating finals finish between Hern¨¢ndez and the Royals¡¯ Bobby Witt Jr. sided with the Dodgers slugger by a matter of mere feet. There was also switch-hitting Jos¨¦ Ram¨ªrez crushing 33 home runs from the left side after he hit right-handed in the 2022 contest, while the Orioles¡¯ Gunnar Henderson showed off a Scooby-Doo bat and impression.

A new Derby format slightly tweaked the rules for this year¡¯s edition, but that didn¡¯t stop it from producing plenty of memorable moments and feats. Here are some of the incredible facts from this year¡¯s Home Run Derby:

Teoscar claims his crown
? Prior to 2024, 10 Dodgers players had entered the Derby a total of 13 times without winning, before Hern¨¢ndez got them on the board. The list of Dodgers who had come up short in the past includes Hall of Famer Mike Piazza, who did not hit a single home run in 1993 or ¡¯94, under a much different format than we have today. Previously, the only Dodgers player to even reach the finals was Joc Pederson, the runner-up to the Reds¡¯ Todd Frazier in 2015.

? Hern¨¢ndez¡¯s victory for the Dodgers means that 21 teams have had a representative win the Derby at least once. The nine teams without a Derby title are the Astros, Braves, Cardinals, Guardians, Padres, Pirates, Rays, Rockies and Royals.

? In addition to representing the Dodgers, Hern¨¢ndez hails from the Dominican Republic, which has a proud history in the Derby. He became the seventh Dominican-born champion in the event and second in three years, joining Juan Soto (2022), Robinson Can¨® (2011), David Ortiz (2010), Vladimir Guerrero (2007), Miguel Tejada (2004) and Sammy Sosa (2000). Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Hern¨¢ndez¡¯s former Blue Jays teammate who last year became part of the first father-son Derby-winning duo, was born in Canada.

Witt¡¯s homecoming performance
? Witt was born and raised roughly 20 miles north of Arlington in Colleyville, Texas. The 24-year-old Royals superstar did not disappoint, crushing 20 first-round home runs and another 17 in the semifinals to move on to the finals. Witt nearly came out on top but finished a homer short of Hern¨¢ndez. Down to his last swing in bonus time, Witt needed to homer to tie Hern¨¢ndez to force a swing-off. Witt crushed a 406-foot ball to one of the deepest parts of Globe Life Field and hit the middle of the left-center-field wall.

? Even so, Witt far surpassed anything that any Royals player had previously accomplished in the franchise¡¯s rather limited Derby history. Prior to 2024, Kansas City had only four players take cuts in the Derby: Bo Jackson (1989), Danny Tartabull (1991), Mike Moustakas (2017) and Salvador Perez (2021). None reached the finals, and all four combined for fewer homers (41) than Witt hit on Monday.

? Witt, who won the 2018 High School Home Run Derby, became the first player to participate in both the high school and MLB Derby events. He was also just the fourth shortstop to reach the Derby finals. The 2024 event was the first Derby with multiple shortstops in the field.

A long list of long balls
? While the rule changes this year limited swings and therefore kept home runs down a bit from recent editions of the Derby, there were still plenty of dingers to go around. All in all, the eight participants combined to wallop 225 homers. That¡¯s far more than any team has hit in game action so far this season -- the Orioles lead MLB with 149 -- and more regular-season homers than Derby participant Pete Alonso has in his career (211).

? Those 225 homers produced 92,590 feet of combined distance, which comes out to roughly 17 1/2 miles worth of big flies.

? Sixty-nine of them traveled at least 425 feet, with Marcell Ozuna¡¯s 473-foot home run being the longest one of the contest.

The switch-hitter successfully switching it up
After hitting 17 first-round homers as a right-hander at the 2022 Home Run Derby at Dodger Stadium, Ram¨ªrez¡¯s decision to bat lefty this year paid off with 21 first-round home runs. His success came from consistently hitting baseballs between 380-420 feet and avoiding prolonged homerless stretches. Ram¨ªrez had just one stretch in which he didn¡¯t homer on four straight swings in his first-round performance. Ram¨ªrez was eliminated with a 12-homer performance in the semifinals, but it was still a special night for the Guardians star.

Bohm¡¯s excellent -- if not surprising ¨C performance
Alec Bohm entered the Derby with 11 home runs in the first half of the season, by far the fewest of the eight contestants. (Witt was next with 16.) That didn¡¯t stop Bohm from putting on a show, reaching the semifinals and forcing a swing-off with the eventual winner of the Derby, Hern¨¢ndez. While Bohm fell one home run short, he still crushed 36 combined home runs in his two rounds and showed why he slugged .482 before the All-Star break. The Phillies third baseman topped out at 445 feet and hit seven home runs that traveled at least 425 feet.

Alonso¡¯s off night
? Alonso came into Monday with 195 career Derby home runs -- nearly as many as in his Major League career. He became the first player to pass the 200 mark in Derby homers, but he finished with just 12, the second-lowest total of any hitter in the event¡¯s first round.

? Alonso hasn¡¯t won a Home Run Derby since taking home titles in his first two events, in 2019 and ¡¯21. He fell, 31-23, to then-rookie Julio Rodr¨ªguez in the semifinals of the 2022 Derby and lost to Rodr¨ªguez again, 41-21, in the first round in 2023. Still, Alonso has a record 207 career Derby homers and a chance to make history. Ken Griffey Jr. holds the record for Derby appearances with eight, three more than Alonso. The Mets slugger -- who has been part of every Derby field since his rookie season in 2019 -- could easily break the record if he continues to be selected year in and year out.