Hosmer adding an RBI single to become All-Star MVP.
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Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera pitched a hitless sixth for the A.L., which will open the Series at home for the 11th time in 14 years since the All-Star victor was used to determine the hosts for Games 1 and 2.
Kris Bryant made the opening statement with two outs in the first, drilling a first-pitch fastball from AL starter Chris Sale over the left-field wall.
The American League went on to defeat the National League 4 to 2. Didn’t it make flawless, crazy-good sense that it would be Cueto, their teammate on the World Series Express last fall? Another cutter missed to run the count full, at which point Diaz was likely looking for another curve. He took strike three.
No team scored after the fourth inning and Zach Britton of the Baltimore Orioles earned the save after pitching a scoreless ninth inning. Colorado’s Nolan Arenado then tapped to third baseman Josh Donaldson, who started a game-ending double play, with Arenado loping down the line as if he had a bad leg. It didn’t last long, because in the second inning, Eric Hosmer homered. And it has sports’ best opening act, the Home Run Derby the day before.
When Edwin Encarnacion came out to pinch run for him, Ortiz waved to the crowd and then spent his AL teammates came out of the dugout to exchange hugs as the crowd of 42,386 rose in tribute.
Hosmer was named All-Star MVP, breaking superstar Mike Trout’s streak of two-straight MVP honors. Kansas City won with home field advantage last season and Boston did the same in 2013.
“You can know somebody, but you still have to be able to execute”.
“I felt like a proud papa”.
“So he can stop stealing all my cars”, Eric said. He was awarded the All-Star game’s Ted Williams MVP Trophy for his efforts in the AL’s 4-2 victory.
“He’s just taking his game to that next level”, Yost said.
“Couldn’t have worked out any better”, said Hosmer.
Let’s go back to the 2002 Midsummer Classic in Milwaukee, former Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig’s hometown.
The start of the game was marked by confusion on social media, as fans were thrown off by the optics of the AL team wearing white in an NL park.
“It was pretty cool”, said Belt, who was feeling ill and missed the All-Star parade and team picture.
“It was really, really hard not to put him in that final vote”, said Yost. That kind of left “Hos” out in the cold.
“He was real excited in the cage, before the game, and look what happened”, Perez said.
The Detroit Tigers’ lone representative, first baseman Miguel Cabrera, went 0-for-1.
For the third time in his career, Madison Bumgarner took a no-hitter into the eighth inning.
We saw it again Tuesday night at Petco Park when the 87th edition of the All-Star Game was contested, when a pristine field suggested that if the Padres had the sort of talent in their lineup that obviously exists within their grounds crew, San Diego would win a heck of a lot more games. For the third time, it slipped away. It was great. He signed the jersey I brought for him. “So that was a cool moment”.
The American League’s 4-2 victory over the NL in San Diego on Tuesday night got a 5.4 rating on Fox. News stories displayed here appear in our category for Sports and are licensed via a specific agreement between LongIsland.com and The Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest news organization.
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The National League threatened in the top of the eighth inning, but it was not to be. Neither came to pass.
