MLB All-Star Game 2022: AL edges NL 3-2

The 92nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game took place Tuesday, and it was one for the books. 

In the first All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium since 1980, the National League was hoping to close the gap with the American League, which owned a 46-43-2 lead in the series entering the contest. 

All hopes were ultimately dashed when Giancarlo Stanton and Byron Buxton hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning to give the AL a 3-2 lead. That was enough to extend the junior circuit’s streak to nine games, with the AL improving to 21-5-1 since 1994.

Stanton, who grew up in Los Angeles, was awarded the game’s MVP in front of 50 friends and family. It was his first All-Star Game appearance since 2017. He became the first Yankee since Mariano Rivera in 2013 and first position player since Derek Jeter in 2000 to win the honor.

Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton wins MVP Award at MLB All-Star Game

New York Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton won the Ted Williams MVP Award at the MLB All-Star Game. Stanton reminisced on attending games in Dodger Stadium and what his family means to him.

The NL scored two runs in the first innings and couldn’t manufacture anything else the rest of the game. 

The Houston Astros’ Framber Valdez got the win and the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ Tony Gonsolin got the loss, something he’s avoided in the regular season. The Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw and Tampa Bay Rays‘ Shane McClanahan were the starting pitchers.

American League All-Stars vs. National League All-Stars

Here are the top moments from the Midsummer Classic!

The streak continues

The American League held on for a 3-2 win and extended its winning steak to nine games.

Emmanuel Clase struck out the side in the bottom of the ninth to slam the door on the NL.

Julio!

Liam Hendriks entered the game in the bottom of the eighth inning with two outs. Travis d’Arnaud flied out to center fielder Julio Rodríguez and Hendriks yelled out to him to not throw the ball into the bleachers.

Mic’d up: White Sox’s Liam Hendriks pleads for ball after Julio Rodríguez’s fly-out catch

The Chicago White Sox’s Liam Hendriks begs Julio Rodríguez of the Seattle Mariners to give him the baseball after getting an out in the 2022 MLB All-Star Game. 

‘Wesley’

In 1978, budding star Lyman Wesley Bostock Jr. was murdered while playing for the California Angels, and Tom Rinaldi explores his life and legacy in an eight-part podcast.

The first two episodes are out now.

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In “Wesley,” Tom Rinaldi explores the many compelling aspects of former Major Leaguer Lyman Bostock’s life and career through an eight-part podcast series.

Heads up

When Ryan Helsley is throwing gas, any ball off the bat is coming at you hard. Just ask Jake Cronenworth, whose face narrowly missed meeting the ball.

Helsley held the AL scoreless and the score remains 3-2 heading into the bottom of the eighth.

Waterworks

Hurry, grab a tissue before watching a young fan tell Kershaw about his late grandfather who wanted to meet the Dodgers starter but never did.

What would you say?

If someone asked Jose Trevino at the beginning of the season that he would be an All-Star, he would’ve been almost speechless.

“Exactly,” he said sarcastically. “Right.”

He ripped a single opposite field to right but was left there in the top of the seventh.

Mini-jam

Nestor Cortes and Jose Trevino were mic’d up for the bottom of the sixth inning. Cortes got into some trouble walking Austin Riley and hitting Travis d’Arnaud with a pitch, but worked out of it with a strikeout of Garrett Cooper.

Watch and listen as the Yankees battery talks through Riley’s at-bat.

Stand Up to Cancer

Before Arizona’s Joe Mantiply retired the AL on nine pitches, Major League Baseball and the vocal ensemble of Los Angeles County High School of the Arts hit everyone in the feels with support of everyone who has been touched by cancer.

Big Papi in the house

Is David Ortiz ready for a comeback? Sounds like AL manager Dusty Baker is saving the Hall of Famer for the ninth inning, only if the AL is losing. That’s kind of his thing, late-inning heroics.

However, the AL hasn’t lost an ASG after scoring more than two runs since 1994.

High-fives for a legend

The NL was held scoreless in the bottom of the fourth, but Albert Pujols got some love from the dugout after flying out in his first at bat.

Souvenir City

Giancarlo Stanton, who used to attend Dodger games as a kid, joined Tom Verducci alongside Byron Buxton after launching missiles into the stands.

“Stanton kind of gave me a little boost right there,” Buxton said.

Giancarlo Stanton, Byron Buxton break down deep MLB All-Star Game homers|MLB on FOX

Byron Buxton of the Minnesota Twins and Giancarlo Stanton of the New York Yankees both break down their home run to Tom Verducci in the the fourth inning of the 2022 MLB All-Star game. 

Here comes the boom

Enter, Tony Gonsolin to pitch the top of the fourth. 

Chaos ensued. Stanton tattooed a ball almost out of…