The National League holds a 43-42-2 edge overall since the first All-Star game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park.
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There was a time when the National League thoroughly dominated the major league All-Star game, but those days are long gone.
Hosmer’s opposite field shot to left off Johnny Cueto – along with Royals teammate Salvador Perez’s homer later in the second inning – lifted the AL to a 4-2 victory over the NL in the 87th All-Star Game at Petco Park.
SAN DIEGO – Eric Hosmer stood in the middle of the field, holding up a trophy.
This year, Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer took home the MVP award in the 4-2 win, putting his Royals in an advantageous position to defend the title while giving the American League a dominant fourth win in a row. As mentioned, the NL won home field advantage three times since 2003, from 2010 to 2012.
Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant slugged the first pitch he saw from White Sox pitcher Chris Sale into the left-field seats to give his team a 1-0 lead. That’s down from the previous low of 6.6 for last year’s game in Cincinnati.
“Couldn’t have worked out any better”, said Hosmer.
Twins infielder Eduardo Nunez didn’t get an at-bat in Tuesday’s game but he did help turn the game-ending double play while playing second base.
Before the game, Royals manager Ned Yost told the A.L. team of the importance of earning home-field. “But you have to be able to execute”, said Yost. “It’s something I’ve always looked forward to”.
In the bottom of the third, Jose Fernandez of the Miami Marlins walked Ortiz, who was replaced by pinch runner Edwin Encarcion of the Toronto Blue Jays.
“I couldn’t thank the city of San Diego enough”.
“He said ‘first pitch fastball”. The game might be a little more slender now than it was a few years ago, in that age of muscled-up thirtysomethings, but it’s more than a little quicker. The Tenors, a British Columbia-based group, changed an “O Canada” lyric to “We’re all brothers and sisters”. That time came Tuesday night at the All-Star Game. Ball boys in retro-style mustard-and-mud Padres uniforms lent a San Diego feel to Petco, which opened in 2004.
That means for the fourth straight year, the American League will have home-field advantage in the World Series. ‘When he does something like that – listen, I know he’s the best first baseman in the game. “A lot of pitchers are coming into the game trying to light up the radar gun a bit”.
He was making his first All-Star appearance after being voted into the starting lineup by the fans and is hitting.
The NBA All-Star Game lasts an entire weekend, with the players getting a full week off before returning to their gruesome schedule. Hosmer added a single and another RBI one inning later.
I get really impressed with the talent Major League Baseball has right now. “That is not an excuse”, Cueto said. I just wanted to soak up the whole experience, and it’s everything and more you could every ask for.
Hosmer received MVP honors after finishing the game 2 for 3 with a home run and two RBIs.
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“So he can stop stealing all my cars”, Eric Hosmer said during the postgame news conference.
