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SPORTS Thursday 13 July 2017
Cano 10th-inning homer gives AL 2-1 All-Star win

By RONALD BLUM All-Star first — Nelson Cruz 17 of the last 20 All-Star
AP Baseball Writer pulled a phone out of his Games played to a deci-
MIAMI (AP) — A new-look uniform pants and asked sion.
All-Star Game ended with the catcher to snap a pho- The night’s most-watched
an old-time score. to of him with umpire Joe sluggers fizzled.
Robinson Cano homered West. A night day after winning
off Cubs closer Wade Davis Davis wasn’t with the Cubs the Home Run Derby with
leading off the 10th inning last fall when they won the 47 long balls, Yankees
as the American League World Series for the first rookie sensation Aaron
beat the National League time in 108 years. He was Judge went 0 for 3 with a
2-1 Tuesday night in an All- acquired in a trade from strikeout, groundout and
Star Game dominated by Kansas City to fortify the flyout. Giancarlo Stan-
this era’s flame-throwers, bullpen, and was the only ton, the star slugger of the
rather than its standout Cubs player in this show- hometown Marlins, was 0
sluggers. case. Chicago has strug- for 3 with a pair of strike-
Craig Kimbrel wiggled out gled this season, going into outs and a dribbler in front
of a jam in the ninth and the break at 43-45. of the plate.
right fielder Justin Upton Kimbrel, throwing at up to NL pitchers struck out 14,
made a lunging catch in 100 mph, stranded runners including four by Carlos
the 10th to help the AL win at second and third to end Martinez, three by Kenley
its fifth in a row. And for the the ninth, striking out Mi- Jansen and two each by
first time since 1964, the ri- chael Conforto. The Boston starter Max Scherzer and
valry is back to all even — closer wound up with the Greg Holland. AL pitchers
43 wins apiece with two win. fanned nine. American League’s Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (22), rounds
ties, and each side has Miller, whose Cleveland In- In the first All-Star Game in the bases after hitting a homerun in the tenth inning, during the
scored exactly 361 runs. dians lost the World Series Florida, Jonathan Schoop MLB baseball All-Star Game, Tuesday, July 11, 2017, in Miami.
Andrew Miller finished off in Game 7, got the save doubled off Wood with two Associated Press
the win and celebrated with some help from Upton. outs in the fifth and came
with his AL teammates. A left fielder playing in home when Sano blooped er in an All-Star Game. season games.
Even though home-field right for the first time in a single about a foot fair Molina was part of a mod- Scherzer, limited to one in-
advantage in the World four years, Upton extend- down the right-field line, ern All-Star moment in the ning, used a full-count slid-
Series no longer goes to ed his arm on a full run to 207 feet from home plate, top of the inning, when he er to strike out Judge, only
the league that wins the catch Corey Seager’s liner where right fielder Bryce entered wearing a shiny the third rookie to bat third
All-Star Game, it was a vic- leading off the 10th. Miller Harper, second baseman gold helmet and chest pro- in an All-Star Game after
tory worth savoring. walked Joey Votto with Daniel Murphy and first tector. Cruz pulled a phone Joe DiMaggio in 1936 and
Cano earned the MVP two outs, then struck out baseman Ryan Zimmer- out of a uniform pants Dick Wakefield in 1943.
honor with his one clutch rookie sensation Cody Bell- man — all from the Wash- pocket when he stepped AL starter Chris Sale, who
swing. At 34, the Seattle inger. ington Nationals — were to the plate and asked Mo- threw two innings, fanned
second baseman was The AL’s first six hits were by unable to reach it. lina to take a picture of him Stanton in the first. The
among the oldest players first-time All-Stars but some Two days shy of his 35th posing with West, who last lefty also neared 100 mph
in a game built around so things don’t change. The birthday, Molina became month became the third with his fastest pitch of the
many of the sport’s new, AL has won 12 of 15 and the oldest catcher to hom- ump to work 5,000 regular- season.q
young stars. He sent a
hanging curve off the back
wall of the right-field bull-
pen, then blew a bubble
with his gum when round-
ing the bases.
Cano’s homer came ex-
actly 50 years after the pre-
vious extra-inning homer in
an All-Star Game, when
Tony Perez hit a tiebreaking
15th-inning shot off Catfish
Hunter in the NL’s 2-1 win at
Anaheim, California. Perez,
now a Marlins executive,
was among eight Latin-
born Hall of Famers who
threw out ceremonial first
pitches.
Miguel Sano put the AL
ahead in the fifth with a
bloop RBI single against
Alex Wood. Yadier Mo-
lina tied it in the sixth with
a home run off Ervin San-
tana.
Molina had just entered
behind the plate in the top
half and snapped off an