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MLB All-Star Game Makes History With Home Run Tiebreaker
MLB All-Star Game Makes History With Home Run Tiebreaker

Yahoo

time4 days ago

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  • Yahoo

MLB All-Star Game Makes History With Home Run Tiebreaker

ATLANTA — The sport that gave fans the ghost runner on second base to help expedite regular-season games that go to extra innings also gave everyone the first home run swing-off in history to decide an All-Star Game on Tuesday night. 'First time of it, there was a lot of pressure, but I thought it was pretty exciting,' Aaron Boone, the manager of the American League, said after the extracurricular home-run session. More from Manfred Expects Rays to Be Sold, Play 2026 Season in the Trop Cal Raleigh and His Torpedo Bats Make History at Home Run Derby MLB All-Star Game Host Braves Seek to Unlock 'Undervalued' Stock The new rule—if the All-Star Game is tied after nine innings, a home-run swing-off determines the winner—was implemented for the first time when the AL came back from a 6-0 deficit on Tuesday and tied the score 6-6 with two runs in the top of ninth at Truist Park in Atlanta. The National League prevailed when game MVP Kyle Schwarber mashed three long balls on the three pitches he faced. 'It was like a hockey shootout,' Schwarber said. The new All-Star tie-breaking rule was memorialized in the last Basic Agreement to avoid long extra-inning All-Star Games; the 2002 Midsummer Classic in Milwaukee had to be halted tied 7-7 in 11 innings because both teams ran out of pitchers. The rules are simple—the day before the game, both managers must designate three batters and an alternate to participate in the potential swing-off. They look for players with power who are going to play late in the contest, NL manager Dave Roberts said. That's why Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani weren't available; they left the game early and weren't designated for the swing-off assignment. '[Roberts] asked yesterday, 'if there was a tie would you do it?'' Schwarber said. 'I said, 'absolutely,' not thinking we're going to end up in a tie when I said yes.' Each batter gets three swings in three concerted rounds, one batter from each league in each round. At the end, the homers are tallied for the final score. If it's still tied after those three rounds, then it goes to sudden death—the swing-off ends on the next homer. Boone designated Brent Rooker, Randy Arozarena and Jonathan Aranda. Roberts chose Eugenio Suarez, Schwarber and Pete Alonso, Rooker and Alonso both hit three-run homers earlier in the game. Suarez was hit with a pitch on the tip of his left pinky during the top of the eighth and went for X-rays that Roberts said were negative. He remained in the game, but had doubts about swinging in the extra round. 'I have the rest of the season still to play,' Suarez said. 'I didn't want to take the chance.' Instead, Roberts replaced him with his alternate, Kyle Stowers. Rooker got the AL off to a quick lead with two homers in the first round. Stowers hit one for the NL. The AL was leading 3-1 adding an Arozarena blast when Schwarber came to the plate in the bottom of the second round. He hit each pitch out, one longer than the other. 'I was just thinking, 'Well, if I can get two here, [Alonso] can just finish it off,'' Schwarber said. 'I got two right away and was able to sneak that third one out.' Aranda went homerless, meaning Alonso never had to hit. The unique proceedings was over. 'It'll be interesting to see where this goes,' Boone said after the game. 'There's probably a world when you can see that on the field maybe in some regular-season mix, I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if some people started talking about it like that. It's a blast. You get to it and all of a sudden, here you go.' Like the ghost runner, stranger things have happened. Best of Tennis Prize Money Tracker: Which Player Has Earned the Most in 2025? Browns Officially Get Public Money for New Stadium in Ohio Budget WNBA Franchise Valuations Ranking List: From Golden State to Atlanta

National League wins All-Star Game in first-ever home run swing-off
National League wins All-Star Game in first-ever home run swing-off

CBS News

time6 days ago

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  • CBS News

National League wins All-Star Game in first-ever home run swing-off

Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League rallied from a six-run deficit on Tuesday night. In baseball's equivalent of soccer's penalty-kicks shootout, the game was decided by having three batters from each league take three swings each off coaches. The change was agreed to in 2022 to alleviate the concern of teams running out of pitchers. Schwarber was named All-Star MVP after going 0 for 2 with a walk in the game. Brent Rooker put the AL ahead by homering on his last two swings, and Kyle Stowers — subbing for Eugenio Suárez — hit one. Randy Arozarena boosted the AL lead to 3-1, and Schwarber was successful on all three tries, going down to a knee as he sent the one into the Chop House seats in right. Jonathan Aranda failed on all three tries, hitting the right-field wall with his second, and the NL didn't have to use its last batter, two-time Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso, as it won for just the second time in the last 12 All-Star Games. The AL leads 48-45 with two ties. Ketel Marte's two-run double in the first had put the NL ahead, and Alonso's three-run homer off Kris Bubic and Corbin Carroll's solo shot against Casey Mize opened a 6-0 lead in the sixth. The AL comeback began when Rooker hit a three-run pinch homer against Randy Rodríguez in a four-run seventh that included Bobby Witt Jr.'s RBI groundout. Robert Suarez allowed consecutive doubles to Byron Buxton and Witt with one out in ninth, and Steven Kwan's infield hit on a three-hopper to third off Edwin Díaz drove in the tying run. Joe Torre, the 84-year-old former Yankees manager, went to the mound for a pitching change in the eighth to take the ball from Shane Smith and hand it to Andrés Muñoz. The Hall of Famer was picked as a coach by current New York skipper Aaron Boone, who managed the AL. Paul Skenes, the first pitcher to start the All-Star Game each of his first two seasons, struck out Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene in a perfect first that included Aaron Judge's inning-ending groundout. The 23-year-old right-hander reached 100 mph on four of 14 pitches. Jacob Misiorowski, a controversial inclusion after pitching in just five major league games in his rookie season, fired nine pitches of 100 mph or more in a one-hit eighth 34 days after his major league debut. The 23-year-old righty, added to the NL roster by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, reached 102.3 mph. There were 21 pitches of 100 mph or more, down from a record 23 last year but up from 13 in 2023, 10 in 2022 and one in 2021. Four of five challenges were successful in the first use of the robot umpire in the All-Star Game Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning, getting a strikeout for Detroit's Tarik Subal on San Diego's Manny Machado. Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson also was successful as the first batter to call for a challenge, reversing a 1-0 fastball from Washington's MacKenzie Gore in the fifth inning that had been called a strike. Mets closer Edwin Díaz and Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk also won challenges, and Marlins outfielder Kyle Stowers lost one.

Kyle Schwarber's 3 homers in all-star game's first tiebreaking swing-off lift nl over al
Kyle Schwarber's 3 homers in all-star game's first tiebreaking swing-off lift nl over al

Al Arabiya

time6 days ago

  • Sport
  • Al Arabiya

Kyle Schwarber's 3 homers in all-star game's first tiebreaking swing-off lift nl over al

Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League rallied from a six-run deficit on Tuesday night. In baseballs equivalent of soccer's penalty-kicks shootout, the game was decided by having three batters from each league take three swings each off coaches. The change was agreed to in 2022 to alleviate the concern of teams running out of pitchers. Schwarber was named All-Star MVP after going 0 for 2 with a walk in the game. Brent Rooker put the AL ahead by homering on his last two swings, and Kyle Stowers–subbing for Eugenio Suárez–hit one. Randy Arozarena boosted the AL lead to 3-1, and Schwarber was successful on all three tries, going down to a knee as he sent one into the Chop House seats in right. Jonathan Aranda failed on all three tries, hitting the right-field wall with his second, and the NL didn't have to use its last batter, two-time Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso, as it won for just the second time in the last 12 All-Star Games. The AL leads 48-45 with two ties.

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