{"id":752110,"date":"2026-07-15T04:09:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/752110\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T04:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T04:09:24","slug":"cease-bullpen-combine-on-3-hitter-in-als-4-0-win-over-nl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/752110\/","title":{"rendered":"Cease, bullpen combine on 3-hitter in AL\u2019s 4-0 win over NL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/ronald-blum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RONALD BLUM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Dylan Cease struck out the side in the first inning, combining with 10 relievers on a three-hitter in a show of pitching dominance that led the American League to a 4-0 win over the National League in Tuesday night\u2019s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Bellinger hit a two-run single and Ben Rice followed with an RBI single in the first against Cristopher S\u00e1nchez of the host Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Vargas of the Chicago White Sox added an eighth-inning home run off the Los Angeles Dodgers\u2019 Justin Wrobleski, who was pitching on his 26th birthday, for the game\u2019s only extra-base hit. The AL won for the 18th time in 23 games and holds a 49-45-2 advantage overall.<\/p>\n<p>Singles by Juan Soto in the fourth, Pete Crow-Armstrong in the eighth and Otto Lopez in the ninth were the only hits by the NL, which failed to advance a runner past first.<\/p>\n<p>Pitchers combined for 27 strikeouts, 15 by AL hurlers.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By\u00a0\u00a0RONALD BLUM PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Dylan Cease struck out the side in the first inning, combining with 10&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[1769,5,610,4,184,557,297,185,295,2550,68,2551,2549],"class_list":["post-752110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-fl","tag-mlb","tag-orlando","tag-professional-baseball","tag-rays","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116922034641927726","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}