The Giants’ Johnny Cueto starts for the N.L., which has lost three in a row and 10 of 13 since the All-Star victor determined home-field advantage for the World Series. After coming within four games of a World Series bid last fall, the team entered the season as the clear favorites to win it all-something the North Siders haven’t accomplished since 1908.
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“I think it’s beneficial for everybody”, Arrieta said. The popular Big Papi plans to retire at 40 after this season with Boston.
Bryant’s impressive home run gave the National League the early 1-0 lead.
Sale threw only nine pitches and allowed a run and a hit. In fact, they became only the second team in Major League Baseball history to have their entire infield start the All-Star Game.
Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez both homered for the AL. We’re making it a little more hard on ourselves.
“For sure being on the West Coast and taking the flight out here just for this, you know”.
The team with home field has won the World Series six of the last seven times and 24 of the past 30.
“Third batter of the game, you’re throwing first pitch fastball, ” Sale said. It really doesn’t affect me at all. Contreras showed why he was such a highly touted prospect as he sent the first pitch he saw over the vines at Wrigley Field for a home run. “I said, ‘No, Dad, I’m going to take the first pitch”.
Sale said that the day Gwynn died was the last day he dipped.
Fernandez admitted, “I couldn’t believe that I was actually pitching to him. We both looked at each other and smiled”.
The All-Star Game returned to San Diego for the first time since 1992 at Jack Murphy Stadium.
The latest news from around the National League Central. “All lives matter to the great”, and one held up a sign reading “All Lives Matter”.
Of course, San Diego has been cruel to the Cubs.
Kris Bryant probably won’t get another first-pitch fastball from White Sox ace Chris Sale when the Chicago Cubs slugger bats against the left-hander during the City Series in a couple of weeks.
The Bryzzo souvenir company has delivered in a huge way in the first half of the 2016 season for the Chicago Cubs. I appreciate the honor of being able to start an All-Star Game. Really, really trying. They practice their hitting and stretch before games and listen to their coaches and cut out the gluten and get a full night’s sleep, all so not to suck. “That is not an excuse”, Cueto said. Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo are just two names that could be a topic of conversation.
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Even though the Cubs have six players on the NL team in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night at Petco Park – center fielder Dexter Fowler would have been the seventh but will sit out with a strained hamstring – there is even a dark cloud attached to the franchise being so well-represented in San Diego.
