Schwarber goes 0-for-2; AL wins ninth straight All-Star Game
Kyle Schwarber couldn’t follow up his disappointing Home Run Derby with an All-Star Game highlight on Tuesday, going 0-for-2 as the National League fell to the American League 3-2 at Dodger Stadium.
Fitting for 2022, it was a game defined by pitching and limited offense, save for the occasional long ball. Shortly after Ronald Acuña Jr. led off the bottom of the first with a double and Mookie Betts drove him in with a single for an early NL lead, Paul Goldschmidt belted a solo shot to deep left field to double it.
Those three hits, plus one more by Trea Turner, constituted a rough All-Star debut for Shane McClanahan, but the American League kept the NL hitless from then until the eighth. That stretch included Schwarber’s groundout to short on the first pitch he saw from Orioles reliever Jorge López in the seventh.
Meanwhile, Giancarlo Stanton and Byron Buxton soiled Tony Gonsolin’s home-field All-Star appearance by cranking back-to-back shots in the fourth. Neither Stanton nor Buxton appeared in last night’s Derby, but these big flies — at 457 and 425 feet, respectively — would’ve fit right in.
Another highlight, though less spectacular, came right out of the gate in the first. In a battle of two Southern California MVPs, Shohei Ohtani — as promised — jumped on Clayton Kershaw’s first pitch of the night for a single, but the hometown Dodgers ace and likely future Hall of Famer quickly erased him on a pickoff.
Schwarber struck out in the ninth on three straight 100-mph cutters from Emmanuel Clase. Schwarber was the second victim of Clase striking out the side for the save.
The American League has now won nine straight All-Star games and leads the Midsummer Classic 47-43-2 all time.
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