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The Texas Rangers were awarded the game on November 17, 2022 by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred.This was the second time that the Rangers hosted an All-Star Game in franchise history, having previously done so in 1995 at The Ballpark in Arlington, which was reconfigured and renamed Choctaw Stadium after the Rangers moved to Globe Life Field in 2020.
A second game was played for four seasons, from 1959 through 1962. The All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award was introduced in 1962 and the first recipient was Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2008 game featured the longest All-Star Game by time: 4 hours 50 minutes, and tied for innings at 15 with the 1967 game.
Ninety-three All-Star Games have been played (including two games per year from 1959–1962), with the AL leading 47-44–2. The All-Star Game has seen several "eras" in which one league tended to dominate. From 1933 to 1949, the American League won 12 of the first 16. The National League dominated from 1950 to 1987, going 33–8–1.
The Home Run Derby on Monday night, won by the Los Angeles Dodgers' Teoscar Hernández, drew 5.45 million viewers on ESPN, down 11% from 6.11 million last year and 6.88 million in 2022.
A night after Teoscar Hernández won the Home Run Derby, Shohei Ohtani hits a three-run home run before the American League prevails in the MLB All-Star Game.
The All-Star left fielder is officially baseball's leading hitter, and on Saturday he homered, collected another three-hit game and drove in two runs in the Guardians' 8-4 win over the Chicago ...
The 2022 All-Star Game logo was shaped after the hexagonal DodgerVision video boards at Dodger Stadium, with gold-trimmed Art Deco lettering as a nod to Hollywood. This was originally unveiled as the logo for the canceled 2020 All-Star Game, but was ultimately recycled for the 2022 game. [ 12 ]
All we needed was Sunday, and for Haliburton to get off to a hot start to stake his claim to MVP of the 2024 All-Star Game. Then he hit five 3-pointers in 92 seconds, the last one a silly 35 ...