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SAN DIEGO --?Giancarlo Stanton wore out Petco Park with a record display of power in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, peppering every landmark from the left-field corner to center field.Stanton hit 20 homers in the final round to best defending champion Todd Frazier of the Chicago White Sox. Overall, the Miami Marlins slugger hit a record 61 homers, shattering the single-night mark of 41 by Bobby Abreu in 2005.Stantons impressive shots hit the top level of the Western Metal Supply Co. building in the left-field corner and the top of the batters eye in center field.He sent several balls just below the giant scoreboard high atop the left-field stands and several over the bullpens in left-center.For sure, being on the West Coast and taking the flight out here just for this, you know. I figure its a waste if I dont bring this bad boy home, Stanton said, hoisting the trophy.The three-time All-Star is not on the National League roster for Tuesday nights game after batting .233 with 20 homers and 50 RBIs before the break.I had a great time. I had a blast.Literally.His longest shot was estimated at 497 feet. He hit the eight longest homers of the competition and 20 of the 21 deepest drives.When I get a few in a row, I would kind of bump it up 5 to 10 percent, he said.?But most the time I stuck at 80-90 percent. I knew I could do it, endurance-wise. I was just hoping my swing didnt fall about.Stanton can defend his title at home next year when the Marlins host the All-Star Game.That is where I got my childhood memories, watching the Home Run Derby as a kid, said Stanton, whos from Los Angeles.Maybe some kids are watching me. I would like to return that.Stanton is baseballs highest-paid player with a $325 million, 13-year deal. His new hitting coach is home run king Barry Bonds.Frazier, whos not on the American League All-Star team, hit 13 in the final round. He was a hometown winner last year while with the Cincinnati Reds. He was traded to the White Sox in December.The Western Metal Supply Co. building served as one of the better Derby targets, joining the Warehouse at Baltimores Camden Yards in 1993 and McCovey Cove outside San Franciscos AT&T Park in 2007, which were all targets for lefty hitters. Stanton hit 24 homers in the first round to eliminate the Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (seven) and 17 in the semifinals to knock out Mark Trumbo (14) of the Baltimore Orioles.Frazier hit 13 in the first round to beat Carlos Gonzalez (12) of the Colorado Rockies, and 16 in the semifinals to eliminate Adam Duvall (15) of the Reds. Trumbo, who leads the majors with 28 homers, had two of the most impressive shots of the night, off the scoreboard in left field and onto the top of the Western Metal Supply Co. Building in his semifinal matchup against Stanton.Wil Myers of the San Diego Padres tried to become the second hometown player to win the Derby. With younger brother Beau -- an infielder-outfielder at Appalachian State -- pitching to him, Myers hit 10 homers in the first round and was eliminated by Duvall with 11. Beau Myers hit his brother with a pitch early in the four-minute period, and nearly nicked him another time. Austin Bryant Youth Jersey . "It doesnt get any better than that," Giambi said. "Im speechless." The Indians are roaring toward October. Giambi belted a two-run, pinch-hit homer with two outs in the ninth inning to give Cleveland a shocking 5-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night, keeping the Indians up with the lead pack in the AL wild-card race. Jarrad Davis Youth Jersey . 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Give her some exercise. Keep her stall clean. Lead her over, get the money, cool her out. Repeat.I know, Mandella confessed. I cant help it. Maybe if I ran her more often it would help.Maybe, but its too late now to change things, and her appearance at Del Mar on Saturday in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch should be enough to satisfy any immediate cravings. The stop-and-start profile of Beholders remarkable career has included 17 wins in 22 starts spread over parts of five seasons. It has been interrupted on significant occasions by injury or illness, but at no point has she cheated her people or her public when asked to perform.Beholders Del Mar summers have for the past few years included afternoons spent in a sun pen at the far end of the fair grounds multipurpose building that houses Mandellas shed row. Beholder loves her pen, and she knows that when its time to come in, it is also time to eat.Once her meal is devoured, and her groom, Ruben Mercado, has tidied up her stall, Mandella will allow the odd visitor to approach the mesh screen keeping Beholder safe from the world. Only those bearing peppermints are welcome.Thats enough now, Mandella will say, polite yet firm, when visitors linger. We dont want to go spoiling her.Thats a hoot. Princess Kate has it rougher than Beholder. When she goes into her stall after a typically robust gallop, Janeen Painter will be on board while three handlers are on the ground, including foreman Jose Vera, to unwrap her legs and peel off her tack.I dont think shed know what to do if there was only one person in there with her, Mandella said. Resent it, probably.Spoil her indeed. Beholder does not need to work for food -- she has earned a cool $4.5 million -- but withhold her peppermints, and her behavior suddenly becomes negotiable.We forgot them the other day schooling her, Mandella said. It was a mistake. So, she comes up to me with her nose close, all sweet, and Im thinking, Aw, shes forgiven me. Next thing I know, shes flipped my hat off and sent it flying.Mandella would like to relax around Beholder, but he cant. One of them needs a Xanax drip, but that would be wrong, so she gets earmuffs to school and saddle, bell boots and thick polos walking anywhere, and the stall closest to the office, just because. She was a handfull from Day 1 four years ago at Del Mar, and she can still light the fuse if things arent just right.dddddddddddd Thanks to Mandella and his crew, things are right way more often than not.Like Thursday morning, when Painter had to wait and wait for a turn to stand in the starting gate before she could let Beholder loose on a stout gallop.There seemed like a hundred horses back there, she said, explaining the delay. But she was great, just looking around. The train went by, and she hardly noticed. Then, when we finally galloped, there was hardly anyone left on the track, which was great, not having to worry about everybody else.Painter, a former jockey, had a few brief encounters with Beholder as a 2-year-old when the filly just missed winning the Del Mar Debutante before capping her season with a victory in the Breeders Cup Juvenile Fillies.She was a little bit crazy, tough to be around as a baby and even into her 3-year-old year, Painter said. At 4, she started getting it, so maybe by the time shes 8 shell be perfect, right?Shes pretty close now, at least in terms of her record. Beholder has won 12 of her last 13 starts in a stretch dating back to her raucous 2013 Kentucky Oaks, when she dumped Garrett Gomez on the way to the post and nearly won anyway. Her only loss since then was her fourth in the 2014 Ogden Phipps, where she lost by a length on a gashed and bloodied hoof.All that was then. Now Beholder is perched on the brink of heights to which few Thoroughbred mares have soared. Once the Clement Hirsch is in the books -- and champion Stellar Wind will have something to say about the outcome -- Beholder will be defending her title against California Chrome and Dortmund in the Pacific Classic on Aug. 20. The three of them -- physical specimens at ages 4, 5, and 6 -- will present a rare tableau. Hope someone brings a camera.I know its hard to believe looking at her now, but she was kind of pudgy when she was 2, Mandella said.Which makes sense since her name derives from the telling phrase, Beauty is in the eye of the ?She was about this wide behind, Mandella said, spreading his arms, and was practically flat across the top.Well take his word for it, but now the duckling is an amazing swan, and there is little mystery left to the story of Beholder, save for how the story will end.Lets not get ahead of ourselves, Mandella warned.No, hes right. Thats Beholders job. ' ' '