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Reuters
5 days ago
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- Reuters
Drama not enough to save MLB All-Star Game from ratings dip
July 17 - The first "swing-off" in Major League Baseball All-Star Game history wasn't enough to save the Midsummer Classic from a 3 percent ratings drop. Tuesday night's game averaged a 3.8 rating and drew 7.19 million viewers on Fox, according to Nielsen, down from 7.44 million last year and the second-fewest on record for the event. It was 3 percent better than the record low of 7 million who tuned into the 2023 MLB All-Star Game. MLB's All-Star event still draws far better than its counterparts, with this year's NBA All-Star Game and the NFL's Pro Bowl Games each averaging 4.7 million viewers. Monday night's Home Run Derby drew 5.73 million viewers on ESPN. The All-Star Game itself peaked with 8.1 million viewers in the 9:15 p.m. ET quarter-hour, per making it the most-watched program on Fox since the Super Bowl. It also featured the first "swing-off" to determine the All-Star Game winner. Each player got three swings. Rooker launched two over the fence, while Stowers went 1-for-3. Arozarena then hit one, before Kyle Schwarber sent all three out to give the NL a 4-3 running lead entering the final round. Aranda then went 0-for-3, clinching the bizarre National League victory -- technically a 7-6 win -- the league's second All-Star Game triumph in three years after dropping the previous nine. A rule change in 2022 provided what was left of the 41,702 fans with a spectacle they likely weren't expecting when they entered Truist Park in Atlanta. "It was interesting," Schwarber said after being named the Phillies' first All-Star Game MVP since Johnny Callison in 1964. "Exciting, fun. There's a lot of guys who deserve this (trophy), but I'm glad it's going home with us to Philly." --Field Level Media
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
MLB All-Star Game 2025: Kyle Schwarber delivers for National League as the star of the first All-Star Swing-Off
ATLANTA — There are plans, there are contingency plans, and then there's what manager Dave Roberts had to do on Tuesday at the All-Star Game. His National League had blown a two-run lead in the top of the ninth and then failed to score in the bottom of the frame, triggering the first iteration of the All-Star Swing-Off: a three-player, three-swing home run derby to win the game. Roberts had to set up his three-man Swing-Off lineup, with one alternate, on Monday, and he opted to go with sluggers Eugenio Suarez of the Diamondbacks, Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies and Pete Alonso of the Mets, with the Marlins' Kyle Stowers as an alternate. (Players such as Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman weren't available, given that they would be leaving the ballpark several innings prior.) Advertisement 'I just figured that two guys that had been in Home Run Derbies before [Schwarber and Alonso] was sort of a no-brainer,' the Dodgers' manager said afterward. 'And I've seen Suarez take batting practice, and when he touches it in batting practice, it goes 400 feet. So I felt that that was a pretty easy choice as well. And the Stowers one … I was hoping I wouldn't have to use him, and it just kind of worked out that way.' In the eighth inning Tuesday, Suarez took a pitch off his hand and had to leave the game, promoting Stowers into action once the Swing-Off came around. Then Schwarber — now a designated hitter — told Roberts that he never takes batting practice on the field anymore, only from within a cage. So all of a sudden, Roberts found himself with an unexpected trio in a brand-new contest. Nonetheless, on a night that honored generations of Atlanta Braves, it was a rival Phillie who stole the show and won the MVP. Schwarber drilled three straight homers with his three swings to give the National League a 4-3 victory in the Swing-Off and a win in the 95th Midsummer Classic. The victory was just the senior circuit's sixth in the past 28 All-Star Games. Early innings: NL jumps to a quick lead First-pitch times in marquee baseball events are a suggestion at best, and this All-Star Game began a full 25 minutes after its scheduled start time. Between a performance from Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri ('Welcome to Atlanta,' of course), an introduction of both starting lineups featuring gyrating dancers, a flyover, multiple rounds of fireworks, a marching band and a first pitch from Braves legend Chipper Jones, starting pitchers Paul Skenes of Pittsburgh and Tarik Skubal of Detroit had plenty of time to get loose and figure out how to face down what might be the toughest lineups they'll see all year. Advertisement Skenes hasn't even thrown two full seasons in the majors, but he already handles these marquee moments like a 10-year veteran. While firing a steady stream of four-seam fastballs at the American League's top three, he struck out the Tigers' Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene, then induced the Yankees' Aaron Judge into a harmless groundout to second baseman Ketel Marte. Skenes also delivered some heat, hitting 100 mph four times in his frame. That brought Judge's fellow titan Shohei Ohtani to the plate to start the bottom of the first, and Ohtani quickly rapped a single off Skubal to short center field. Hometown favorite Ronald Acuña Jr. stepped into the box to the cheers of the Atlanta crowd, and after tipping his helmet, he legged out an infield hit. Arizona's Marte then snaked a double down the right-field line to score Ohtani and Acuña easily. Just like that, Skubal looked like he was in a world of trouble, but he didn't get the start in the All-Star Game because he wilts under pressure. Instead, after Freddie Freeman grounded out to short, a bit of baseball history followed. On an 0-2 pitch to San Diego's Manny Machado, Skubal challenged the call of a ball from home-plate umpire Dan Iassogna. Baseball's new ABS challenge system revealed that the pitch was indeed a strike, and thus Machado got rung up. Dodgers catcher Will Smith then struck out on three pitches, ending the inning with the National League up 2-0. Advertisement L.A.'s Clayton Kershaw started the second inning for the NL and recorded two quick outs before being lifted for San Diego's Jason Adam. After Skenes had whipped nothing but high-90s (or 100) gas in the first, Kershaw never topped 89 miles an hour. Chicago's Kyle Tucker bailed him out with a sliding catch of Home Run Derby champ Cal Raleigh's fly ball … … and Kershaw's tip of the cap to the Atlanta crowd after his two batters had a ring of farewell to it. Make of that what you will. Middle innings: Slow start, hot finish After the starters get their run, baseball's All-Star Game becomes a scorekeeper's nightmare, with both managers swapping in players all over the field. This is the point when the fans of each franchise hope to get a glimpse of their representative players … and hope he doesn't do something dumb like strike out or make a game-deciding error. Advertisement NL (and Dodgers) manager Dave Roberts began the position-player overhaul when he gave Freeman a curtain call in the top of the third, and the Atlanta crowd offered up a respectful round of applause for their former franchise icon. The AL mounted its first real threat of the evening in the fourth, when the Big Dumper and Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stroked back-to-back two-out singles. But the Mets' David Peterson snuffed out the budding rally, inducing Baltimore's Ryan O'Hearn into a soft, inning-ending comebacker. There's a reason these pitchers are All-Stars, too, and through five and a half innings, outside of Skubal's first frame, both leagues' pitchers kept the opposition in check. As the pitchers' duel wound on, the most exciting moment in the middle innings came when mascots from around the league dumped sacks of popcorn onto the fans as Lil Wayne's 'Turn Down For What' skittered. (Sure, defensive battles have their own charms, but the run of scoreless innings didn't exactly thrill the fans, especially after Acuña was replaced.) Advertisement And then, right when the crowd was starting to realize how quickly this game was progressing, the National League threw open the barn doors. Leading off the bottom of the sixth, San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. drew the first walk and stole the first base of the game. The Cardinals' Brendan Donovan followed with an infield squibber, setting the stage for the Mets' Pete Alonso. As expected in his rival ballpark, Alonso received the loudest boos of the evening every time his name was announced; he took it all with a smile and wave. Then he neatly flipped the boos into cheers by turning on a 94-mph fastball from Kansas City's Kris Bubic, rocketing it 367 feet into Truist Park's right-field restaurant. That opened up the very real possibility that a hated Met would be the game's MVP in Atlanta. Advertisement Three batters later, Arizona's Corbin Carroll drilled a 414-foot homer of his own to right, and with three innings remaining, the NL held a 6-0 lead. Final innings: The AL finds its bats An impressive, technology-driven tribute to Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run in April 1974 led off the game's final stretch with a proper touch of history and perspective. That was enough, apparently, to inspire the American League to get up off the deck in the top of the seventh. Toronto's Alejandro Kirk singled, and Tampa Bay's Jonathan Aranda walked, setting up Brent Rooker's 407-foot homer off San Francisco's Randy Rodriguez that halved the NL's lead. The next batter, Kansas City's Maikel Garcia, walked, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error and soon afterward scored on a groundout, leaving the AL just two runs short at the seventh-inning stretch. Advertisement Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski, the five-start rookie whose controversial addition to the NL roster dominated much of the pregame chatter, pitched the eighth inning for the NL. All he did was throw 18 pitches, nine of which exceeded 100 miles an hour, to shut down the American League and validate his place in this exhibition. San Diego's Robert Suarez followed Misiorowski in the ninth, and that's where the drama began. Suarez allowed doubles to Minnesota Twin (and Georgia native) Byron Buxton and Kansas City's Bobby Witt Jr., drawing the American League within one run. The Mets' Edwin Diaz replaced Suarez — to another round of boos from the Atlanta fans — and induced Jazz Chisholm Jr. into a slick groundout to Atlanta's Matt Olson before Cleveland's Steven Kwan slapped a slow infield roller that scored Witt and tied the game 6-6. Seattle's Randy Arozarena struck out on three straight pitches (the final one another successful challenge), and the game continued into the bottom of the ninth. When the National League's final three batters failed to score, the game went to the inaugural All-Star Swing-Off. Bonus round: The Swing-Off In the Swing-Off, each manager selected three players to take three swings apiece. The team that amassed the most homers in its nine swings would be the All-Star Game champion. Advertisement Rooker led off for the AL, smacking two homers in three swings. Stowers followed with a single longball. Arozarena blasted one more for the AL before Schwarber, despite boos from the provincial Braves fans, blasted his three straight moon shots to give the National League a one-homer lead heading into the final frame. When Aranda couldn't launch any of his swings over the fence, the National League, with Pete Alonso waiting on deck, claimed the Swing-Off victory 4-3. 'It was interesting,' Schwarber said afterward. 'I was a little nervous … I'm just trying to put it in my head: If I can get two here, Pete can finish it off.' Advertisement He did a little better than that, sending all three of his blasts deep and, in the process, winning All-Star Game MVP — the first non-pitcher to do so without recording a hit in regulation. 'He came up huge. Dino Ebel, our pitching coach, came up huge. It was a lot of fun,' Roberts said. 'And the cool thing is that we got to see the players were all into it, too.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
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- Yahoo
MLB All-Star Game 2025: Kyle Schwarber delivers for National League as the star of the first All-Star Swing-Off
ATLANTA — There are plans, there are contingency plans, and then there's what manager Dave Roberts had to do on Tuesday at the All-Star Game. His National League had blown a two-run lead in the top of the ninth and then failed to score in the bottom of the frame, triggering the first iteration of the All-Star Swing-Off: a three-player, three-swing home run derby to win the game. Roberts had to set up his three-man Swing-Off lineup, with one alternate, on Monday, and he opted to go with sluggers Eugenio Suarez of the Diamondbacks, Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies and Pete Alonso of the Mets, with the Rockies' Kyle Stowers as an alternate. (Players such as Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman weren't available, given that they would be leaving the ballpark several innings prior.) Advertisement 'I just figured that two guys that had been in Home Run Derbies before [Schwarber and Alonso] was sort of a no-brainer,' Roberts said. 'And I've seen Suarez take batting practice, and when he touches it in batting practice, it goes 400 feet. So I felt that that was a pretty easy choice as well. And the Stowers one … I was hoping I wouldn't have to use him, and it just kind of worked out that way.' During the nine innings of regulation, Suarez took a pitch off his hand and had to leave the game, promoting Stowers into action once the Swing-Off came around. And Schwarber — now a designated hitter — told Roberts that he never takes batting practice on the field anymore, only from within a cage. So all of a sudden, Roberts found himself with an unexpected trio in a brand-new contest. And so, on a night that honored generations of Atlanta Braves, it was a rival Phillie who stole the show and won the MVP. Schwarber drilled three straight homers in his three swings to give the National League a 4-3 victory in the Swing-Off and a win in the 95th All-Star Game. The victory was just the senior circuit's sixth win in the past 28 All-Star Games. Early innings: NL jumps to a quick lead First-pitch times in marquee baseball events are a suggestion at best, and this All-Star Game began a full 25 minutes after its scheduled start time. Between a performance from Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri ('Welcome to Atlanta,' of course), an introduction of both starting lineups featuring gyrating dancers, a flyover, multiple rounds of fireworks, a marching band and a first pitch from Braves legend Chipper Jones, starting pitchers Paul Skenes of Pittsburgh and Tarik Skubal of Detroit had plenty of time to get loose and figure out how to face down what might be the toughest lineups they'll see all year. Advertisement Skenes hasn't even thrown two full seasons in the majors, but he already handles these marquee moments like a 10-year veteran. While firing a steady stream of four-seam fastballs at the American League's top three, he struck out the Tigers' Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene, then induced the Yankees' Aaron Judge into a harmless groundout to second baseman Ketel Marte. Skenes also delivered some heat, hitting 100 mph four times in his frame. That brought Judge's fellow titan Shohei Ohtani to the plate to start the bottom of the first, and Ohtani quickly rapped a single off Skubal to short center field. Hometown favorite Ronald Acuña Jr. stepped into the box to the cheers of the Atlanta crowd, and after tipping his helmet, he legged out an infield hit. Arizona's Marte then snaked a double down the right-field line to score Ohtani and Acuña easily. Just like that, Skubal looked like he was in a world of trouble, but he didn't get the start in the All-Star Game because he wilts under pressure. Instead, after Freddie Freeman grounded out to short, a bit of baseball history followed. On an 0-2 pitch to San Diego's Manny Machado, Skubal challenged the call of a ball from home-plate umpire Dan Iassogna. Baseball's new ABS challenge system revealed that the pitch was indeed a strike, and thus Machado got rung up. Dodgers catcher Will Smith then struck out on three pitches, ending the inning with the National League up 2-0. Advertisement L.A.'s Clayton Kershaw started the second inning for the NL and recorded two quick outs before being lifted for San Diego's Jason Adam. After Skenes had whipped nothing but high-90s (or 100) gas in the first, Kershaw never topped 89 miles an hour. Chicago's Kyle Tucker bailed him out with a sliding catch of Home Run Derby champ Cal Raleigh's fly ball … … and Kershaw's tip of the cap to the Atlanta crowd after his two batters had a ring of farewell to it. Make of that what you will. Middle innings: Slow start, hot finish After the starters get their run, baseball's All-Star Game becomes a scorekeeper's nightmare, with both managers swapping in players all over the field. This is the point when the fans of each franchise hope to get a glimpse of their representative players … and hope he doesn't do something dumb like strike out or make a game-deciding error. Advertisement NL (and Dodgers) manager Dave Roberts began the position-player overhaul when he gave Freeman a curtain call in the top of the third, and the Atlanta crowd offered up a respectful round of applause for their former franchise icon. The AL mounted its first real threat of the evening in the fourth, when the Big Dumper and Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stroked back-to-back two-out singles. But the Mets' David Peterson snuffed out the budding rally, inducing Baltimore's Ryan O'Hearn into a soft, inning-ending comebacker. There's a reason these pitchers are All-Stars, too, and through five and a half innings, outside of Skubal's first frame, both leagues' pitchers kept the opposition in check. As the pitchers' duel wound on, the most exciting moment in the middle innings came when mascots from around the league dumped sacks of popcorn onto the fans as Lil Wayne's 'Turn Down For What' skittered. (Sure, defensive battles have their own charms, but the run of scoreless innings didn't exactly thrill the fans, especially after Acuña was replaced.) Advertisement And then, right when the crowd was starting to realize how quickly this game was progressing, the National League threw open the barn doors. Leading off the bottom of the sixth, San Diego's Fernando Tatis Jr. drew the first walk and stole the first base of the game. The Cardinals' Brendan Donovan followed with an infield squibber, setting the stage for the Mets' Pete Alonso. As expected in his rival ballpark, Alonso received the loudest boos of the evening every time his name was announced; he took it all with a smile and wave. Then he neatly flipped the boos into cheers by turning on a 94-mph fastball from Kansas City's Kris Bubic, rocketing it 367 feet into Truist Park's right-field restaurant. That opened up the very real possibility that a hated Met would be the game's MVP in Atlanta. Advertisement Three batters later, Arizona's Corbin Carroll drilled a 414-foot homer of his own to right, and with three innings remaining, the NL held a 6-0 lead. Final innings: The AL finds its bats An impressive, technology-driven tribute to Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th home run in April 1974 led off the game's final stretch with a proper touch of history and perspective. That was enough, apparently, to inspire the American League to get up off the deck in the top of the seventh. Toronto's Alejandro Kirk singled, and Tampa Bay's Jonathan Aranda walked, setting up Brent Rooker's 407-foot homer off San Francisco's Randy Rodriguez that halved the NL's lead. The next batter, Kansas City's Maikel Garcia, walked, stole second, advanced to third on a throwing error and soon afterward scored on a groundout, leaving the AL just two runs short at the seventh-inning stretch. Advertisement Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski, the five-start rookie whose controversial addition to the NL roster dominated much of the pregame chatter, pitched the eighth inning for the NL. All he did was throw 18 pitches, nine of which exceeded 100 miles an hour, to shut down the American League and validate his place in this exhibition. San Diego's Robert Suarez followed Misiorowski in the ninth, and that's where the drama began. Suarez allowed doubles to Minnesota Twin (and Georgia native) Byron Buxton and Kansas City's Bobby Witt Jr., drawing the American League within one run. The Mets' Edwin Diaz replaced Suarez — to another round of boos from the Atlanta fans — and induced Jazz Chisholm Jr. into a slick groundout to Atlanta's Matt Olson before Cleveland's Steven Kwan slapped a slow infield roller that scored Witt and tied the game 6-6. Seattle's Randy Arozarena struck out on three straight pitches (the final one another successful challenge), and the game continued into the bottom of the ninth. When the National League's final three batters failed to score, the game went to the inaugural All-Star Swing-Off. Bonus round: The Swing-Off In the Swing-Off, each manager selected three players to take three swings apiece. The team that amassed the most homers in its nine swings would be the All-Star Game champion. Roberts courted controversy from the start by not selecting the Braves' Olson. Advertisement Rooker led off for the AL, smacking two homers in three swings. Miami's Kyle Stowers followed with a single longball. Arozarena blasted one more for the AL before Schwarber, despite boos from the provincial Braves fans, blasted straight three moon shots to give the National League a one-homer lead heading into the final frame. When Aranda couldn't launch any of his three swings, the National League, with Pete Alonso waiting on deck, claimed the Swing-Off victory 4-3. 'It was interesting,' Schwarber said afterward. 'I was a little nervous … I'm just trying to put it in my head: If I can get two here, Pete can finish it off.' Advertisement He did a little better than that, sending all three of his swings deep and, in the process, winning the All-Star Game MVP — the first non-pitcher to do so without recording a hit in regulation. 'He came up huge. Dino Ebel, our pitching coach, came up huge. It was a lot of fun,' Roberts said. 'And the cool thing is that we got to see the players were all into it, too.'
Forbes
5 days ago
- Sport
- Forbes
National League Wins MLB All Star Game Determined By A 'Swing Off'
ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 15: Kyle Schwarber #12 of the Philadelphia Phillies walks across the field ... More prior to the MLB All-Star Game at Truist Park on July 15, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) A tie score led to a home run 'Swing Off' to determine the winner of the 2025 All Star Game. The game ended in a 6-6 tie, and extra innings were not played. Enter the 'Swing Off.' It was the first time the 'Swing-Off' was used to determine the winner of the All Star Game. History was made. The league that hit the most home runs from their three league representatives was declared the winner of the All Star Game. Each hitter received three swings. Representing the American League, Brent Rookie hit one homer, Randy Arozarena hit one homer, and Jonathan Aranda did not hit a home run, giving the National League the win in the 'Swing Off.' For the National League, Kyle Stowers hit one homer, Kyle Schwarber hit three homers, and Pete Alonso did not have to hit, because Kyle Schwarber's three homers iced it for the National League. Jonathan Aranda could not tie the home run total as the American League's final batter. Kyle Schwarber won it for the National League. The annual 'midsummer classic' was held at Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves. The National League was the home team. American League Starting Lineup: 1- Gleyber Torres, Tigers, 2B 2- Riley Greene, Tigers, LF 3- Aaron Judge-Yankees RF 4- Cal Raleigh, Mariners C (Home Run Derby Winner July 14) 5- Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays, 1B 6- Ryan O'Hearn- Orioles, DH 7- Junior Caminero, Rays, 3B (Replacement for Jose Ramirez) 8- Javier Baez, Tigers, CF 9- Jacob Wilson, Athletics, SS Starting Pitcher=Tarik Skubal, Tigers, P Aaron Boone, Yankees, Manager National League Starting Lineup: 1- Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers, DH 2- Ronald Acuna Jr., Braves, RF 3- Ketel Marte, Diamondbacks, 2B 4- Freddie Freeman, Dodgers, 1B 5- Manny Machado, Padres, 3B 6- Will Smith, Dodgers, C 7- Kyle Tucker, Cubs, LF 8- Francisco Lindor, Mets, SS 9- Pete Crow-Armstrong, Cubs, CF Starting Pitcher=Paul Skenes, Pirates, P Dave Roberts, Dodgers, Manager The game featured the iconic presence of the Yankees Aaron Judge, and the Dodgers Shohei Ohtani; two of the most dominant players in the game's history. Players wore their team's primary home and road jerseys. (ABS) the automated ball-strike challenge system, not yet implemented by MLB in the regular season, was available during the game. American League starting pitcher, Tarik Skubal, was on the ropes immediately in the bottom of the 1st inning. Those who bet on Shohei Ohtani to get the first hit of the game were correct. Ohtani singled off Skubal, leading off the bottom of the 1st for the National League. Braves hometown hero, Ronald Acuna Jr., followed Ohtani's hit with an infield single. The first runs of the game scored when Diamondbacks Ketel Marte, hitting third, doubled to drive in the first two runs of the game. The first ball/strike challenge of the game came in the bottom of the first, when the American League had a call reversed to a strike. Dodgers lefty, Clayton Kershaw, the 'Legend Pick' for the All Star Game, retired his only two hitters in the top of the 2nd inning. The first American League hit came in the top of the 3rd inning, as Rays third baseman Junior Caminero singled off Giants righty, Logan Webb. Royals pitcher Kris Bubic walked Padres outfielder, Fernando Tatis, who promptly stole second. Cardinals infielder, Brendan Donovan, stroked an infield single. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 15: Pete Alonso #20 of the New York Mets runs around the bases after hitting ... More a three-run home run against the American League during the sixth inning of the MLB All-Star Game at Truist Park on July 15, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Then, Mets slugger Pete Alonso smoked a big, three-run, opposite field home run to right field. That gave the Nationals a 5-0 lead. Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks homered off the Tigers Casey Mize later in the inning, making the lead 6-0. Prior to the top of the 7th inning, MLB honored the great Hall of Fame, and 25-time All Star, Hank Aaron, a true Atlanta hero. Momentum shifted in the 7th inning. ATLANTA, GEORGIA - JULY 15: Brent Rooker #25 of the Athletics celebrates with teammates in the ... More dugout after his three-run home run against the National League during the seventh inning of the MLB All-Star Game at Truist Park on July 15, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Athletics slugger Brent Rooker got the American League back in the game with a three-run homer off Giants righty Randy Rodriguez in the top of the 7th. It made the score National League 6-American League 3. An RBI ground out by Royals shortstop, Bobby Witt Jr. drove in the American League's 4th run of the game. Brewers rookie Jacob Misiorowski threw his fastball at 102.2 miles-per-hour in the top of the 8th inning. Witt Jr. followed a double by Twins slugger Byron Buxton with a double to bring the American League to within one run, at 6-5 in the top of the 9th. Cleveland Guardians outfielder Steven Kwan singled to tie the score, resulting in the first ever All Star Game 'Swing Off.' Kyle Schwarber was named game's Most Valuable Player 41,702 fans were in attendance.
