On
Tuesday night, Major League Baseball played its 88th All-Star Game at Marlins
Park, appropriately located in Miami, Florida. The American League defeated the
National League.
The
American League has won the last five meetings! This
game ended with a 2-1 final, celebrating an extra-innings win thanks to a
10th-inning homer by Robinson Cano of the Mariners.
Cano's
home run was the first extra-inning blast in exactly 50 years. Tony
Perez, who, coincidentally, threw out one of the game's first pitches, was the
last to do it in 1967.
The
AL took the lead in the fifth when a Miguel Sano blooper landed in right field
and plated Jonathan Schoop. The NL later tied it up on a sixth-inning home run
from Yadier Molina.
The
American League has won the last five meetings. Since 1997, the National League
has only three wins in the Midsummer Classic – 2010, 2011, 2012.
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