2024 All-Star Game
The 2024 All-Star Game was the 94th edition of the Midsummer Classic. It was played at Globe Life Field in Arlington, TX on July 16, 2024. It was the second time the game was hosted by the Texas Rangers, having been staged at The Ballpark in Arlington, the ballpark's predecessor, in 1995. The logo for the game, which featured an outline of the state of Texas, was revealed on July 19, 2023, just after the holding of the 2023 All-Star Game.
The 2024 Futures Game took place on July 13th and the 2024 Amateur Draft was held in nearby Fort Worth, TX two days before the game, on July 14th. As per tradition, the annual Home Run Derby preceded the game by one day.
In the game, the American League returned to its winning ways after losing the previous year, with a 5-3 come-from-behind win; it was the junior circuit's tenth win in the last eleven instances of the annual event. Mason Miller was only the third rookie to be the winning pitcher, while another young player, Jarren Duran, in his first All-Star appearance, was named the winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game's outstanding player after hitting a go-ahead two-run homer in the 5th inning.
The Teams[edit]
American League[edit]
Bruce Bochy, manager of the defending World Champion Texas Rangers, managed the American League team, assisted by coach Mark Kotsay, manager of the Oakland Athletics, and members of the Rangers coaching staff.
National League[edit]
Torey Lovullo, manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks managed the National League team assisted by coach David Bell, manager of the Cincinnati Reds, alongside members of the Diamondbacks coaching staff.
The Game[edit]
The American League defeated the National League in a game that was remarkable for its brisk pace, as it was completed in just 2:28, making it the shortest All-Star Game since 1988 - another sign that Major League Baseball's changes to improve the pace of play over the last couple of years had borne fruits.
Most of the early attention was focused on NL starting pitcher Paul Skenes, who only a year earlier had been the first overall pick in the 2023 amateur draft and who was having a terrific rookie season for the Pittsburgh Pirates; he was only the fifth rookie to ever get the starting pitching assignment at the Midsummer Classic. After AL starter Corbin Burnes of the Baltimore Orioles had started things off with a scoreless inning, although he allowed a walk and a double to Bryce Harper, Skenes retired the first two men he faced before walking Juan Soto. That set up the confrontation everyone was expecting with Soto's teammate with the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge, but Skenes won that easily after forcing Judge to ground out on his first pitch.
The scoring started in the 3rd when the NL got to Tanner Houck of the Boston Red Sox for three runs: Jurickson Profar and Ketel Marte began the inning with back-to-back singles, and Shohei Ohtani, now with the Los Angeles Dodgers, hit a three-run homer to right-center. That made Ohtani the first player in All-Star Game annals to have both won a game and hit a long ball, another notch in an unprecedented career for the Japanese superstar. The NL's lead would not last long, and in fact they would not score any more runs all game even though they outhit their opponents by a 10 to 5 margin. In the bottom of the 3rd, Marcus Semien of the hometown Texas Rangers led off the inning with a single off Logan Webb of the San Francisco Giants, after which Steven Kwan of the Cleveland Guardians drew a walk. Both advanced when Gunnar Henderson grounded out to 1B Harper, and both then scored on a double by Soto. After Judge made the second out, David Fry pinch-hit for Yordan Alvarez and singled to left, driving in Soto with the tying run.
The only other inning in which there were any runs was the 5th. First, Mason Miller of the Oakland Athletics put on a clinic in power pitching in the top of the frame, as he threw eight pitches clocked over 100 mph over his inning of work, including one against Trea Turner that reached 103.6 mph, the highest radar reading ever seen in an All-Star Game. He struck out both Turner and Ohtani, and would turn out to be the winning pitcher - only the third rookie to ever do so after Spec Shea in 1947 and Dean Stone in 1954. That was the result of the AL scoring twice in the bottom of the inning, thanks to a two-out single by Anthony Santander off Hunter Greene, followed by a two-run homer by Jarren Duran that traveled 413 feet and earned him the Ted Williams Award as the game's most valuable player. The 5-3 lead that resulted from the homer would not be touched for the rest of the game, as pitchers dominated the remainder of the proceedings. Before that however, Hunter Greene had a moment of his own when he started off the inning by retiring his namesake Riley Greene of the Detroit Tigers: the two men had a number of similarities apart from their last name, such as having been picked #1 and #2 overall in consecutive amateur drafts and having debuted within a three-month span in 2022.
The NL used six pitchers to complete the final three innings, but none of them gave up a hit or a walk. For the AL, which used nine pitchers for one inning each, there were four runners who reached base, all on singles. The Kansas City Royals pair of Cole Ragans and Seth Lugo, pitching to their battery-mate Salvador Perez, allowed one and two hits respectively in the 6th and 7th. Kirby Yates struck out two of the three batters he faced in the 8th and Emmanuel Clase of the Guardians was called upon to close the game in the 9th. No doubt inspired by Mason Miller's performance, he lit up the radar gun himself, getting 13 pitches over 100. He allowed a two-out single to Jackson Merrill to bring up Bryan Reynolds as the potential tying run, but he struck him out for the final out. It was Clase's second All-Star Game save, putting him in a small group of five pitchers including Mel Harder and three Hall of Famers: Bruce Sutter, Dennis Eckersley and Mariano Rivera.
Starting Lineups[edit]
| National League | Batting Order |
American League | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Player | Position | Team | Player | Position | Team | |||
| Ketel Marte | 2B | Arizona Diamondbacks | 1 | Steven Kwan | LF | Cleveland Guardians | ||
| Shohei Ohtani | DH | Los Angeles Dodgers | 2 | Gunnar Henderson | SS | Baltimore Orioles | ||
| Trea Turner | SS | Philadelphia Phillies | 3 | Juan Soto | RF | New York Yankees | ||
| Bryce Harper | 1B | Philadelphia Phillies | 4 | Aaron Judge | CF | New York Yankees | ||
| William Contreras | C | Milwaukee Brewers | 5 | Yordan Alvarez | DH | Houston Astros | ||
| Christian Yelich | RF | Milwaukee Brewers | 6 | José Ramírez | 3B | Cleveland Guardians | ||
| Alec Bohm | 3B | Philadelphia Phillies | 7 | Vladimir Guerrero Jr. | 1B | Toronto Blue Jays | ||
| Teoscar Hernández | CF | Los Angeles Dodgers | 8 | Adley Rutschman | C | Baltimore Orioles | ||
| Jurickson Profar | LF | San Diego Padres | 9 | Marcus Semien | 2B | Texas Rangers | ||
| Paul Skenes | P | Pitsburgh Pirates | SP | Corbin Burnes | P | Baltimore Orioles | ||
Line Score[edit]
July 16, 2024 at Globe Life Field (39,343), night game - Baseball-Reference scoresheet
| League | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| American | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 5 | 5 | 0 |
Pitchers
National: Paul Skenes, Max Fried, Logan Webb, Shota Imanaga, Hunter Greene (L), Cristopher Sánchez, Reynaldo López, Robert Suarez, Matt Strahm, Tanner Scott, Jeff Hoffman
American: Corbin Burnes, Tarik Skubal, Tanner Houck, Garrett Crochet, Mason Miller (W), Cole Ragans, Seth Lugo, Tyler Yates, Emmanuel Clase (SV)
Home Runs
National: Shohei Ohtani (3rd)
American: Jarren Duran (5th)
Umpires[edit]
- James Hoye HP (crew chief); Bruce Dreckman 1B; John Tumpane 2B; Nic Lentz 3B; Ben May LF; Nestor Ceja RF
Rob Drake served as the replay official
Further Reading[edit]
- David Adler: "Here are your 2024 All-Star starters", mlb.com, July 3, 2024. [1]
- Anthony Castrovince: "AL tops NL as MLB's best put on a show during 94th All-Star Game", mlb.com, July 16, 2024. [2]
- Jason Foster: "All-Star uniforms embrace Lone Star State", mlb.com, July 3, 2024. [3]
- Kennedi Landry: "Rangers to host 2024 ASG at Globe Life Field", mlb.com, November 17, 2022. [4]
- Kennedi Landry: "Rangers reveal 2024 All-Star logo", mlb.com, July 20, 2023. [5]
- Sarah Langs: "13 amazing stats and facts about this year's All-Star teams", mlb.com, July 8, 2024. [6]
- Do-Hyoung Park: "The 9 best moments from a Star-studded Midsummer Classic in Texas", mlb.com, July 16, 2024. [7]
- Manny Randhawa: "Skenes vs. Burnes, phenom vs. Cy winner an enticing All-Star matchup", mlb.com, July 15, 2024. [8]
Related Sites[edit]
| Major League Baseball's All-Star Game
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