AL tops NL as MLB’s best put on a show during 94th All-Star Game.
ARLINGTON — The blend was beautiful. Power pitching that overwhelmed the opposition, and power hitting that answered back. Established superstars shining on summer’s biggest stage, and emerging superstars making their presence known in front of an ample audience.
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Whether it was magnetic Pirates rookie Paul Skenes getting massive Yankees slugger Aaron Judge to roll over on a 100-mph fastball, Dodgers international sensation Shohei Ohtani launching a 400-foot homer or the Phillies’ Trea Turner and Royals’ Bobby Witt Jr. making difficult defensive plays at shortstop, some of the sport’s greatest skillsets were on display Tuesday night at Globe Life Field. But the biggest moment of all turned out to be the tiebreaking, two-run homer off the booming bat of Boston’s breakout center fielder Jarren Duran in the American League’s 5-3 win over the National Leaguers.
The AL was victorious for the 17th time in the last 21 Midsummer Classics, holding serve at the home park of the Rangers -– the first defending World Series champion to host the All-Star Game since the 1939 Yankees. And Globe Life Field, a 4-year-old building that has somehow already housed two World Series, two no-hitters and a record-breaking home run off the bat of Judge, was easily up to the task of accommodating the All-Stars and a loud and rocking crowd of 39,343.
