Year to year, the lineups change, the stadium changes, and yet the All-Star Game itself has a familiar, traditional and reassuring feel to it. But now you do. Background for you. What was the reason? A sports editor came up with the notion to have a game between the best players from each league.
There was little that could be done, but the team did manage to scratch for runs on RBIs by Murphy in the fourth and Sax in the fifth. That was pretty much be the extent of the NL offense. But there was more than runs for fans to marvel at. In the midst of the late scoring spurt, the Comiskey crowd got a chance to cheer for its own. White Sox outfielder Ron Kittle , a rare rookie-turned-All-Star, beat out an infield hit in the seventh.
He was 1-for The evening was a first for Kittle and a last for two Cooperstown shoo-ins. Those moments of individual recognition were the last pieces of significance in a contest sapped of drama once Lynn hit the grand slam. The American League won — prolonging an unbeaten streak that eventually reached In addition to the sources cited in the Notes, the author also consulted Baseball-Reference. July 7, 8. How about those baserunners? That's what makes All-Star Games fun. No wonder poor Atlee Hammaker got tagged for seven runs in two-thirds of an inning.
Box Score at Baseball-Reference. Lynn already had the very best years of his career with the Red Sox at this point -- he led the AL in batting average.
He hit. Fred Lynn only had one hit in the All-Star game. In the bottom of the 3rd inning, Atlee Hammaker was getting rocked. A American League lead had become a tense situation. Like the early s film classic Repo Man explained: Most ordinary people spend their lives avoiding tense situations but a Repo Man spends his getting into tense situations.
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