6 Quick facts about MLB All-Star game

 

Did your favorite players make the cut? Here are a few quick and fun facts about the MLB All Star Game!

1. The first All Star Game is held in Chicago’s Comiskey Park, with legendary Babe Ruth hitting the first home run in ASG history.

2. Only 4 ASGs have gone into extra innings: 1987, 1994, 2002, 2017

3. Home field advantage has alternated between the National and American leagues until 2003. Since then, the league that wins the World Series has been given the right to become the home team.

4. Ichiro Suzuki is the only player to have hit an inside-the-park home run in an ASG. He won MVP honors as well at the same ASG in 2007.

5. In 2017, Yadier Molina became the oldest catcher to have hit the ball out of the park at an ASG, at 34 years, 363 days old. The previous record holder was Yogi Berra at 34 years, 83 days old in 1959.

6. In 2017, Robinson Cano hit a game-winning home run in a pitching-dominated game. The pitch to Cano was thrown by Wade Davis, a member of the reigning World Champions, Chicago Cubs. Interestingly, he was the lone representative for the Cubs in the ASG