There are few things more American than Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game.
Since 1933 when the tradition began, the mid-season classic has climbed the ladder to the point of being considered a holiday very similar to Independence Day.
Fireworks, hundreds of hot dogs and many liters of beer will be consumed while the American League try to extend your nine-game winning streak over the National League at T-Mobile in Seattle.
To try to reverse the All-Star Game trend, the old circuit was armed with eight players from the Atlanta Braves, the organization with the best record in Major League Baseball (60-29).
But behind the tribe are the Los Angeles Dodgers (51-38), a team that has been represented in the exhibition game since 1933 when the first edition was made.
Second baseman Tony Cuccinello and manager Max Carey They represented the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The lineage that began in 1933 with two elementstoday has a continuation when the ninth of Los Angeles contributed to five of its greatest figures, including starters Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman and JD Martinez.
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Betts also participated in the Home Run Derby at T-Mobile Park being eliminated in the first round. Mookie will be contesting his seventh midseason classic, his third representing the Dodgers.
This is the edition where more Californian position players start an All-Star Game since 1980 when four players were disputing the first inning.
Dodgers record for most players in an All-Star Game is seven (1941-42, 1949-52). The franchise has also featured six All-Stars numerous times, with the most recent instance coming in 2022.
Freeman is the third Dodgers first baseman to start in an All-Star Game, joining Steve Garvey and Gil Hodges. Garvey came through fan voting between 1974 and 1980.
Martinez is the second Dodgers player to start an All-Star Game as a designated hitter.. Although when Max Muncy he did it in 2021, the fans had not yet voted for that position on the National League team.
Rotation ace Clayton Kershaw made 10 selections to the All-Star Game in his career to tie a franchise record he had exclusively Pee Wee Reese.
Due to injury, Kershaw will sit out today’s All-Star Game.
The receptor Will Smith makes his first appearance in a Midsummer Classic.
Betts leads the Dodgers with 26 homers and 62 RBIssame number of towed as JD Martinez.
Freeman He has sent home 61 runs and has flown the ball 17 times.
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The National League has only three wins since 1997 and has lost nine in a row.
The last time Seattle hosted the MLB All-Star Game in 2001 at the same venue, then known as Safeco Field, Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken was MVP in his 19th and final appearance in the game. The American League won 4-1.