All Star Game GameDayThread (GDT) & Poll

[mitlen]

Ya but it's just such a forced melodramatic moment or something, bugs me.

Yep.    I think the participants have good intentions but   ....

[skippy1999]

Yep.    I think the participants have good intentions but   ....

...They're all forced to do it lol

[mitlen]

Catcher looks like a Roman Centurion.

[mitlen]

...They're all forced to do it lol

You can always not participate.

[mitlen]

Well, gotta let the neighbor's dogs out.   

"I'd like to tell ya that I'd see ya more often but often is a world I seldom use."

[nats2playoffs]

50 years ago...


The 1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 38th. Twelve pitchers combined for an All-Star Game record 30 strikeouts. In the top of the 15th inning, Tony Pérez hit a one-out home run off of AL pitcher Catfish Hunter, then in his fifth inning of relief, to give the NL a lead that won..

[skippy1999]

You can always not participate.

lol I'd love to see that, the one person who won't "stand up to cancer!"

[nats2playoffs]

Scoring Summary                                              AL   NL
AL   5th   Miguel Sanó (Minnesota Twins) singled to right, Jonathan Schoop (Balimore Orioless) scored.   1   0
NL   6th   Yadier Molina (St Louis Cardinals catcher, age 35) homered to right.   1   1

American League All Stars   1
Nationals League All Stars   1

                     

[Natsinpwc]

50 years ago...


The 1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 38th. Twelve pitchers combined for an All-Star Game record 30 strikeouts. In the top of the 15th inning, Tony Pérez hit a one-out home run off of AL pitcher Catfish Hunter, then in his fifth inning of relief, to give the NL a lead that won..

Thanks for posting that.  My childhood hero Richie Allen with the first home run.  Should have been in the hall of fame with all his talent.

[varoadking]

Thanks for posting that.  My childhood hero Richie Allen with the first home run.  Should have been in the hall of fame with all his talent.

Dick Allen when he played with the White Sox.  An odd duck, but one helluva ball player...

[Natsinpwc]

Dick Allen when he played with the White Sox.  An odd duck, but one helluva ball player...

Apparently he always wanted to be called Dick.  He even messed up with the Phillies when they brought him back at the end of his career.  But he could hit.  Used to swing that 40 ounce bat. 

[trangert418]

Damn....I thought that was Miguel Cabrera batting for a second

[Natsinpwc]

This was 53 years ago but what the heck.

[trangert418]

Harper standing next to Maddon thinking to himself......"You f'ing SOB, you single handedly destroyed my 2016 season"

[skippy1999]

Man you people are lol

[Natsinpwc]

Man you people are lol

Experienced.

[varoadking]

Man you people are lol

mitlen gave Abner the idea for all this...

[Natsinpwc]

Harper standing next to Maddon thinking to himself......"You f'ing SOB, you single handedly destroyed my 2016 season"

Trying to ask him if he will hit third or fourth in 2019.

[skippy1999]

mitlen gave Abner the idea for all this...

Trying to ask him if he will hit third or fourth in 2019.

 

[skippy1999]

Since this game doesn't mean anything anymore do they call it after 9 innings if it's still tied?

[trangert418]

Bob just called that shot....

[trangert418]

Was he serious with the Cris Carter comment? Couldn't quite tell

[nats2playoffs]

If the American League has used all their bench players in a tied game, they deserve to lose, Maddon will out manage them for the Nationals League.
 

[nats2playoffs]

Since this game doesn't mean anything anymore do they call it after 9 innings if it's still tied?

As far as I know, it will be played until completion.

The first tie in an All-Star Game occurred on July 31, 1961 at Fenway Park in Boston when the game was called at 1–1 after nine innings due to rain; the only other rain-shortened game was in 1952, but the National League defeated the American League, 3–2 in five innings.

The 2002 All-Star Game, held in Milwaukee, ended in controversy in the 11th inning when both teams ran out of substitute players available to pitch in relief. At that point, Commissioner Bud Selig (a Milwaukee native and former owner of the Brewers) declared that the game would end after 11 innings, and it ended in a 7–7 tie. The crowd booed and threw beer bottles onto the field, and the media were highly critical of this unsatisfactory conclusion.


Bud Selig, 2002 All Star Game: MORON

[nfotiu]

It seems kinda dull when we're left with the second rate all stars to finish out a tied game.  Maybe allowing the starters to pinch hit later in the game would be fun.