WASHINGTON.- The National League He defeated Tuesday night 7-6 American League In the first Star set of the Major Leagues of baseball that was decided in a home run contest.
The match concluded in Atlanta with a 6-6 draw after the National had an advantage of six races when entering the seventh entrance.
For the first time in its 95 editions, the All-Star Game defined the winner in a tiebreaker in the style of a football penalties.
The format in this case was a reduced version of the home run, the Cañoneros contest that served as an appetizer on Monday at the Truist Park in Atlanta.
Each team put three batters in Liza and the old circuit won the experiment with a 4-3 result thanks to an implacable performance by Kyle Schwarber.
The figure of the Philadelphia Philis connected a home run in each of its three swings, a recital that earned him the most valuable player prize (MVP) of the event.
“It was interesting, exciting, fun. I am happy that it worked for us,” Schwarber said about this new party resolution.
After a streak of nine defeats, the National now adds two wins in the last three games of played stars.
American removal
The duel in the Truist Park started with a dominant first entry of Paul Skenes, which punished the American gunners with lines of more than 160 km/h.
The star launcher of the pirates, the first to open two games of stars in his first seasons in the majors, struck out the Venezuelan Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene, of the Tigers, and the fearsome Aaron Judge, the star of the Yankees.
From the domain of Skenes he went to the bombing against Tarik Skubal, opener of the American, who in his initial shift granted a hit to Japanese Shohei Ohtani, leader of the Dodgers.
The Venezuelan Ronald Acuña Jr., from the Braves of Atlanta, applied another unstoppable to the left -hander of the Tigers. With the prepared table, the Dominican Ketel Marte, of the Diamondbacks, connected a double that towed the races of Ohtani and Acuña Jr.
Still in the first post, the star game first used the new automated ball and strike challenges system that, using hawk eye technology, allows you to challenge the decision of a referee.
The score did not move until the sixth ‘inning’, when the National extended its distance with two home runs from Americans Pete Alonso and Corbin Carroll.
The Bombazo de Alonso, of Spanish descent, was the first of a Mets player in this event since 2006 and also towed two other races of the Dominican Fernando Tatis Jr. and Brendan Donovan.
Ball to Suárez
The 6-0 advantage of the old circuit seemed definitive, but the American returned the emotion to the 41,000 spectators with an explosive seventh episode.
Brent Rooker, from the athletics, put his team on the board with a home run that towed the races of Mexicans Jonathan Aranda and Alejandro Kirk.
The American cut even more ground with a ruling with Bobby Witt Jr., which allowed the Venezuelan Maikel García to pass through the registrar.
The scare of the night was lived in the eighth ‘inning’, when the Venezuelan Eugenio Suárez received a strong ball in the left hand of the pitcher Shane Smith.
Sure, the batter of the D-backs was reviewed on the field, but remained in the game.
The American completed her persecution in the ninth, when Witt Jr. hit a double for Byron Buxton’s career and then he tied the score after a single from Steven Kwan.
Cuban reliever Aroldis Chapman held the National in the last shift and the game was defined in a mini home run with three batters per team.
Schwarber, who took her out of the park on her three swings, and Kyle Stowers gave the National Triunfo 4-3 against the American, who added two home runs from Brent Rooker and one from the Cuban-Mexican Randy Arozarena.
