The 2011 MLB All-Star Game was played on Tuesday. The National League beat the American League 5 to1. This is the first time since 1996 that the NL as beat the AL twice in a row. The AL won every from 1997 to 2009 expect for 2002 where they tied. This game is important because who ever wins the NL win have home field in the World Series. The team with home field in the World Series the last 25 times as won the World Series 20 times. One odd thing that happened was they were a lot of replacements players. Normally there is 66 All-Stars between both Leagues but this year there was 84 which means there was 18 replacement players. I thought the AL was probably going to win and the game was going to be really close. The NL started Roy Halladay and he pitched 2 innings without allowing a hit. Then Cliff Lee came in a had 1 and 2/3 of hitless ball by then Gonzalez and the AL was up 1-0. The AL almost went up 2-0 but Bautista was thrown out at home. In the bottom of the fourth after Beltran and Kemp were singled, Fielder came up and homered to make it 3 to 1 NL. In the 5th Ethier singled to scored Weeks to make it 4 to 1. In the 7th the NL got a run when Sandoval grounded into a double play and Pence scored. The NL had 9 hits to the AL who had 6. C.J. Wilson got the lose for the AL, he gave up the Fielder homerun. One fun thing Clippard got the win only pitching 1/3 of an inning and Brian Wilson got the save pitching 2/3 of an inning. Normally pitcher have to pitch 5+ innings to get the win.
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