The American and National League\u2019s best, er, most available square off in Philadelphia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Yes, it\u2019s All-Star week, which means tonight is the All-Star game, which means this is the final MLB-endorsed event until games restart on Friday. For some, especially Mariners fans, that might sound like a blessing. Those fans will be heartened to know Randy Arozarena is the Mariners only representative this year, and he\u2019s not in this evening\u2019s starting lineup. They cannot hurt you today, probably.<\/p>\n
The AL has put together an excellent lineup and Ernie Clement. Mike Trout leads off followed by Yordan Alvarez and Shea Langeliers, completing a Western top third. Junior Caminero and Bobby Witt Jr. hit fourth and fifth as the league\u2019s best players. The AL lacks star power on the mound, but Dylan Cease is perhaps the one exception; he\u2019s the current favorite for the AL Cy Young this year. It\u2019s not clear if or when Arozarena will make it into the game, though if it ends in a tie, he will once again be part of the swing off.<\/p>\n
The NL\u2019s lineup includes three Dodgers, two Phillies, two Braves, a Met and a National. They\u2019ll also have a third Philly with Cristopher S\u00e1nchez on the mound. It\u2019s an All-Star Game. They\u2019re a great team, even they\u2019re only representing a third of their league in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m going to be brave and say the AL wins this one 6-4. Witt hits a homer and a double and wins the MVP. Arozarena comes off the bench and gets hit by a pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The American and National League\u2019s best, er, most available square off in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Yes, it\u2019s All-Star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,33304,3537,619,65,3235],"class_list":["post-752166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-game-threads","tag-mlb-news","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116922388570899749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752166","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=752166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}