{"id":20142,"date":"2022-07-20T11:43:43","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/2022-mlb-all-star-game-score-takeaways-al-winning-streak-continues-as-giancarlo-stanton-byron-buxton-homer\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T11:43:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T11:43:43","slug":"2022-mlb-all-star-game-score-takeaways-al-winning-streak-continues-as-giancarlo-stanton-byron-buxton-homer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/2022-mlb-all-star-game-score-takeaways-al-winning-streak-continues-as-giancarlo-stanton-byron-buxton-homer\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 MLB All-Star Game score, takeaways: AL winning streak continues as Giancarlo Stanton, Byron Buxton homer"},"content":{"rendered":"
The American League, on the strength of back-to-back home runs by Giancarlo Stanton and Byron Buxton, continued its All-Star Game dominance on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. The AL won the 2022 MLB All-Star Game, 3-2, to make it nine consecutive wins over the National League in the Midsummer Classic. <\/p>\n
Stanton, who was named All-Star Game MVP, hit a 457-foot, two-run homer off Dodgers righty Tony Gonsolin in the fourth inning. Buxton, the next batter, followed with a 425-foot blast of his own to give the AL a one-run lead that the team would not relinquish. <\/p>\n
The National League got off to a strong start. Dodgers legend Clayton Kershaw got the start in front of his home crowd and pitched a scoreless first inning (which featured a pick-off of Shohei Ohtani). The NL got two runs in the bottom of the first, thanks to an RBI single from Mookie Betts and a solo homer from Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt. The NL had four hits off of AL starter Shane McClanahan, but had just one knock in the final eight innings. <\/p>\n
Now for some takeaways from the 2022 All-Star Game. <\/p>\n
The American League’s All-Star Game winning streak is up to nine. The so-called Junior Circuit is also 21-4 in the last 25 All-Star Games. That said, the National League dominated the All-Star Game so much in the 1960s and 1970s that the AL only has a slim 47-43-2 edge in the all-time series despite its recent dominance. The AL will look to extend its All-Star Game winning streak to 10 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle next year. <\/p>\n
Thanks to Goldschmidt’s first-inning homer, the NL held a 2-0 lead going into the fourth inning. However, things changed quickly thanks to Giancarlo Stanton of the Yankees and Byron Buxton of the Twins. <\/p>\n
With one out and one on, Tony Gonsolin of the host Dodgers presented Stanton with an 0-2 splitter. Stanton, who joined Mariano Rivera (2013) and Derek Jeter (2000) as Yankees to win All-Star Game MVP honors, found it to his liking: <\/p>\n