In baseball\u2019s equivalent of soccer\u2019s penalty-kicks shootout, the game was decided by having three batters from each league take three swings each off coaches. The change was agreed to in 2022 to alleviate the concern of teams running out of pitchers.<\/p>\n
Schwarber was named All-Star MVP after going 0 for 2 with a walk in the game.<\/p>\n
Players from both teams stood outside their dugouts during the swing-off, jumping and shouting after each homer from their side. When Jonathan Aranda\u2019s last swing for the AL fell short, NL players circled around Schwarber to celebrate.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome,\u201d Schwarber said. \u201cThe guys were really into it. They were yelling, screaming, cheering me on every swing. And then when that last one goes over, they were all pumped. It was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
More: How Mariners fared during the All-Star Game<\/a><\/p>\n Brent Rooker put the AL ahead by homering on his last two swings, and Kyle Stowers \u2014 subbing for Eugenio Su\u00e1rez \u2014 hit one.<\/p>\n Randy Arozarena boosted the AL lead to 3-1, and Schwarber was successful on all three tries, going down to a knee as he sent the one into the Chop House seats in right.<\/p>\n Aranda failed on all three tries, hitting the right-field wall with his second, and the NL didn\u2019t have to use its last batter, two-time Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso, as it won for just the second time in the last 12 All-Star Games. The AL leads 48-45 with two ties.<\/p>\n Ketel Marte\u2019s two-run double in the first had put the NL ahead, and Alonso\u2019s three-run homer off Kris Bubic and Corbin Carroll\u2019s solo shot against Casey Mize opened a 6-0 lead in the sixth.<\/p>\n The AL comeback began when Rooker hit a three-run pinch homer against Randy Rodr\u00edguez in a four-run seventh that included Bobby Witt Jr.\u2019s RBI groundout.<\/p>\n Robert Suarez allowed consecutive doubles to Byron Buxton and Witt with one out in ninth, and Steven Kwan\u2019s infield hit on a three-hopper to third off Edwin D\u00edaz drove in the tying run.<\/p>\n Joe Torre, the 84-year-old former Yankees manager, went to the mound for a pitching change in the eighth to take the ball from Shane Smith and hand it to Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz. The Hall of Famer was picked as a coach by current New York skipper Aaron Boone, who managed the AL.<\/p>\n Heat on the mound<\/p>\n Paul Skenes, the first pitcher to start the All-Star Game each of his first two seasons, struck out Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene in a perfect first that included Aaron Judge\u2019s inning-ending groundout. The 23-year-old right-hander reached 100 mph on four of 14 pitches.<\/p>\n Jacob Misiorowski,\u00a0a controversial inclusion<\/a>\u00a0after pitching in just five major league games in his rookie season, fired nine pitches of 100 mph or more in a one-hit eighth 34 days after his major league debut. The 23-year-old righty, added to the NL roster by baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, reached 102.3 mph.<\/p>\n There were 21 pitches of 100 mph or more, down from a record 23 last year but up from 13 in 2023, 10 in 2022 and one in 2021.<\/p>\n Robot umpire debuts<\/p>\n Four of five challenges were successful in the first use of the robot umpire in the All-Star Game<\/p>\n Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh\u00a0signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning, getting a strikeout for Detroit\u2019s Tarik Subal on San Diego\u2019s Manny Machado.<\/p>\n Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson also was successful as the first batter to call for a challenge, reversing a 1-0 fastball from Washington\u2019s MacKenzie Gore in the fifth inning that had been called a strike. Mets closer Edwin D\u00edaz and Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk also won challenges, and Marlins outfielder Kyle Stowers lost one.<\/p>\n Earning a hand<\/p>\n Freddie Freeman was removed for Alonso with two outs in the third inning, giving the crowd of 41,702 a chance to cheer a player who spent 12 seasons with the Braves and helped win the 2021 World Series title.<\/p>\n Styling<\/p>\n Teams were back in their regular-season club jerseys\u00a0\u2014 whites for the NL, mostly grays for the AL \u2014 after four years of special All-Star uniforms that were much criticized.<\/p>\n Jazz Chisholm Jr. arrived in a Valentino smoking jacket and Christian Louboutin shoes. Instead of having players line up on the foul lines as they were introduced, they walked to a four-level red podium stretching across the infield dirt with flashing lights, smoke a DJ and dancers.<\/p>\n Raleigh successful on first All-Star robot umpire challenge<\/a><\/p>\n
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