Greatest All-Star Game Ever? - July 14, 1970!

CalifYanksFan · 07-09-01, 11:17 AM

In an All-Star Game classic, Pete Rose - playing the only way he knew how - bowled over Ray Fosse at home plate in the 12th inning to win the 1970 game at Cincinnati.

By Sal Maiorana
CBS SportsLine Historian
CINCINNATI (July 14, 1970) - On the eve of the 41st major league baseball All-Star Game, Pete Rose met Ray Fosse for the first time, and he asked the young Cleveland Indians catcher to come to his home for dinner.

"I didn't know Pete at all until the night before the game," Fosse recalled. "We met at some function and he invited me over to his house and we sat up half the night talking baseball."

The next time Rose and Fosse got together - about 24 hours later in the bottom of the 12th inning at Cincinnati's sparkling new Riverfront Stadium - the meeting wasn't quite as social.

In one of the most famous plays in baseball history, Rose violently bowled over Fosse at home plate, enabling the sparkplug of the Cincinnati Reds to score the winning run in the National League's come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the American League.

"I didn't really know what kind of player Pete was until the next night," said Fosse. "I never got hit like that before. I know he didn't mean it, but who knows, maybe he should have run around me. If he had it would have saved me a lot of pain. We both made the plays that we thought we had to make, a couple of aggressive ballplayers doing their jobs."

ROSE WAS VILLIFIED BY MEDIA and fans for smashing into Fosse during a game that did not count in the standings. He had been the National League's rookie of the year in 1963, won the NL batting title the previous two seasons, and throughout his first seven years in the majors had made a name for himself as a hard-working, lunch-pail toting kind of player who the fans could identify with.

But once Rose demolished Fosse, his image began to change, and by the time he wiped out New York Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson with a vicious slide in the 1973 divisional playoffs, precipitating a celebrated fight, Rose was a villain in every city he traveled to.

Which, of course, was fine with him.

"That's the only way I know how to play, I play to win, the way my father taught me to play," Rose said, defending himself in the wake of the Fosse episode. "I play hurt, I play tired, I play as hard as hell. Don't tell me it's an exhibition or spring training. Don't tell me to take it easy between the white lines. That's not me, that's not my dad. If I play a charity softball game for nothing, not a dime, I go all out. Besides, nobody told me they changed it to girls softball between third and home."

When the NL rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 4-4, Rose struck out with the winning run on first base to end the inning. He had also struck out in his previous at-bat in the eighth. So here was the hometown boy, born and raised in Cincinnati and a member of the Reds, flopping miserably in the All-Star Game in front of President Nixon and 51,838 paying customers at the two-week-old $45 million stadium, and a national TV audience.

Naturally, Rose was looking to make amends when he dug himself into the batters box to face Clyde Wright of the California Angels with two outs in the 12th.

HE LASHED A SINGLE UP THE MIDDLE and moved to second when Bill Grabarkewitz of the Dodgers singled to left. Jim Hickman of the Cubs then lined a 1-0 fastball to center to send Rose off on his mad dash to the plate.

Kansas City's Amos Otis fielded the ball cleanly and rifled a strong throw that sailed a few feet up the third base line. As Fosse moved out to receive the ball, he straddled the foul line and blocked Rose's path, leaving Rose - at least in his mind - no alternative. Just as the ball got to Fosse, Rose lowered his left shoulder and catapulted himself into Fosse's left shoulder. The catcher went flying backward, losing both the ball and his glove, and before he realized what had happened, Rose had touched the plate and the fans were on their feet gleefully celebrating the fantastic finish.

"I thought I was beat by the throw," said Rose. "I started to slide head first but I saw I couldn't make it because he was blocking the plate. If I would have slid I would have been out. The only thing I could do was run him over. I didn't care about hurting myself if we could win.

"Look, I'm the winning run in the All-Star Game in my hometown. I just want to get to the plate as fast as I can."

Like Rose, Fosse was playing to win. If he hadn't blocked the plate, no one would have said a thing about it because this was an All-Star Game. But Fosse was playing the game the way it was supposed to be played, too.

"A lot of things were going through my mind when I was waiting for Otis' throw," Fosse said. "This wasn't an ordinary game, the President of the United States had thrown out the first ball, I was young, just 23, I was playing with guys like Frank Robinson and Harmon Killebrew, tremendous names to me.

"There's a bad play a catcher can make in that situation, the ole' shot, get out of the way. The runner goes by like a charging bull and you wave a tag at him like a matador. That's the wrong play. The right play is to block the plate. I knew 65 million people were watching on TV, and aside from that I wanted the respect of my peers. I was not going to look like a fool and get out of the way, I was the Cleveland catcher, not the San Diego Chicken."

What did others on the field think of Rose's play?

"That's just part of the game," said losing AL manager Earl Weaver of the Baltimore Orioles. "Fosse was just trying to block him from the plate."

Said Angels shortstop Jim Fregosi: "I didn't particularly like the play. All he had to do is slide and nobody gets hurt."

THIS ALL-STAR GAME WAS DOMINATED by pitching in the early going as neither team scored until the sixth inning. Baltimore's Jim Palmer of the AL and New York Met Tom Seaver of the NL started and each threw one-hit ball for three innings of work. Cleveland's Sam McDowell duplicated Palmer's one-hit shutout for the next three innings for the AL, while Cincinnati's Jim Merritt pitched one-hit ball for two innings.

In the top of the sixth, San Francisco's Gaylord Perry was touched for the first run as Fosse singled to right, was sacrificed to second by McDowell, and scored with two outs when Boston's Carl Yastrzemski - who would finish with four hits and win MVP honors - looped a RBI single to right-center.

In the seventh, the AL made it 2-0 as Baltimore's Brooks Robinson singled and Minnesota's Tony Oliva walked with one out. Davey Johnson of the Orioles then hit a grounder up the middle that went for an infield hit, loading the bases, and Fosse lined a sacrifice fly to center scoring Robinson.

With Gaylord's brother, Jim, on the mound for the AL, the NL broke through in the bottom of the seventh when Bud Harrelson of the Mets singled, Cito Gaston of the Padres walked and Houston's Denis Menke was hit by a pitch to load the bases. San Francisco's Willie McCovey then grounded into a double play, but Harrelson scored to cut the NL deficit to 2-1.

Bob Gibson took the mound in the eighth for the NL, and the usually dominant Cardinal allowed two runs on three hits to drop the NL in a 4-1 hole. Yastrzemski singled to right, moved to second when Detroit's Willie Horton singled up the middle, and with two outs, both runners scored on Brooks Robinson's triple to center.

JIM PERRY PITCHED A PERFECT EIGHTH for the AL, and Gibson shrugged off a walk to Fosse to get out of the top of the ninth unscathed. Weaver then summoned Oakland's Catfish Hunter to nail down the victory, but he was roughed up as Dick Dietz of the Giants homered, Harrelson singled, and after Gaston popped up to first, Joe Morgan of the Astros singled to right with Harrelson stopping at second.

Fritz Peterson of the Yankees replaced Hunter and McCovey greeted him with a single up the middle that scored Harrelson and chased Morgan to third. "I'll be seeing that ball for 10 days," Peterson said of McCovey's hit.

Peterson departed in favor of his Yankee teammate Mel Stottlemyre, and NL manager Gil Hodges sent Roberto Clemente of Pittsburgh up to pinch-hit for Gibson. Clemente lashed a fly to deep right-center that scored Morgan with the tying run, and then Rose fanned to end the uprising.

Weaver, who had picked the nine pitchers on his roster, all starters, was criticized for not having a relief pitcher available for just that situation in the ninth.

"Sure I would have liked to have Darold Knowles (Senators) or Ron Perranoski (Twins) in the tough spots, but I only had nine pitchers," Weaver explained. "Maybe it would have been a good idea to have five starters and four relievers. But if I would have selected a relief pitcher for the staff, who would I have dropped off? McDowell or Palmer?"

The AL had a runner aboard in each of the 10th and 11th innings but failed to score, while the NL twice went three-and-out.

In the top of the 12th, Yastrzemski doubled with two outs off Claude Osteen of the Dodgers, Horton was walked intentionally, and Osteen induced Otis to fly to center for the third out, setting the stage for the climactic bottom half of the inning.

Hickman, an original New York Met who had never hit higher than .257 in his first eight seasons until batting .315 in 1970, was an unlikely hero.

"I was a little surprised I even got picked for the team," said Hickman, who had encountered airline difficulty, didn't arrive at the stadium until 5 p.m. and missed batting practice. "There were a couple of guys they could have picked ahead of me, including my teammate, Billy Williams.

"I guess it (being nervous) showed in my first couple of at bats, I was jumping at the ball. I was just trying to do more than I could. When I came up in the 12th I wanted to hit the ball so bad. Clyde Wright just put a fastball right where I wanted it. Then when I hit it I was hoping it would get in there. This has to be the highlight of my career."

THE VICTORY WAS THE EIGHTH IN A ROW for the NL and increased its lead in the all-time series to 23-17-1. There had been six extra-inning All-Star games, and the NL had won every one.

"At no time did we think we were going to lose," said Weaver, who was disappointed by the loss because his Orioles had also lost to the upstart Mets in the 1969 World Series. "We weren't beat until we walked into the clubhouse. When am I going to do something right for the American League?"

Brooks Robinson, who played in his 14th straight All-Star Game, summed up the AL's frustration best: "You know in the early 1960s you had to admit they could put nine men on the field who had an edge over us. I don't mean the whole league or anything, but they could field a better team of stars. But the last two years I feel our team is as good as theirs and that makes it harder to take when you lose, especially this way in a close game."

POSTSCRIPT: Rose missed only 10 games due to injuries in the entire decade of the 1970s, and three came right after his collision with Fosse as he suffered a severely bruised left thigh. But those three games were a pittance compared to what Fosse went through.

Fosse was never the same after the collision. He had entered the All-Star Game hitting .313 with 16 home runs, but he hit just two more dingers the rest of the year and saw his average plummet to .268.

Originally, doctors diagnosed his injury as a bruised collar bone, but Fosse's power and hitting stroke were profoundly affected, so he knew there was more damage in his shoulder. However, Cleveland manager Alvin Dark, going by what the doctors said, insisted that Fosse was not hurt as badly as he thought and kept his catcher in the lineup. "Don't worry about offense, just handle the pitchers," is what Dark told Fosse.

Only when Fosse broke his right index finger - and it was confirmed by x-rays - two months later did Dark sit him down. The following spring, it was revealed that Fosse had been playing all along with a fracture in his shoulder. Fosse never again approached .300 and over the final nine years of his career with Cleveland, Oakland, Cleveland again, Seattle and Milwaukee, his highest home run total was 12.

Stats:



Boxscore

AMERICAN        ab r h bi     NATIONAL     ab r h bi

Aparicio, ss     6 0 0  0     Mays, cf      3 0 0  0 

Yaz, cf-ib       6 1 4  1     G. Perry, p   0 0 0  0 

F. Robinson, lf  3 0 0  0     McCovey, 1b   2 0 1  1

Horton, lf       2 1 2  0     Osteen, p     0 0 0  0

Powell, 1b       3 0 0  0     Torre, ph     1 0 0  0

Otis, cf         3 0 0  0     Allen, 1b     3 0 0  0

Killebrew, 3b    2 0 1  0     Gibson, p     0 0 0  0

Harper, pr       0 0 0  0     Clemente, rf  1 0 0  1

B. Robinson, 3b  3 1 2  2     Aaron, rf     2 0 0  0 

Howard, lf       2 0 0  0     Rose, lf      3 1 1  0

Oliva, rf        2 0 1  0     Perez, 3b     3 0 0  0

D. Johnson, 2b   5 0 1  0     Grbrkwitz, 3b 3 0 1  0

Wright, p        0 0 0  0     Carty, lf     1 0 0  0

Freehan, c       1 0 0  0     Hickman, 1b   4 0 1  1

Fosse, c         2 1 1  1     Bench, c      3 0 0  0

Palmer, p        1 0 0  0     Dietz, c      2 1 1  1

McDowell, p      0 0 0  0     Kessinger, ss 2 0 2  0

A. Johnson, ph   1 0 0  0     Harrelson, ss 3 2 2  0

J. Perry, p      0 0 0  0     Beckert, 2b   2 0 0  0

Fregosi, ph      1 0 0  0     Gaston, cf    2 0 0  0

Hunter, p        0 0 0  0     Seaver, p     0 0 0  0

Peterson, p      0 0 0  0     Staub, ph     1 0 0  0

Stottlemyre, p   0 0 0  0     Merritt, p    0 0 0  0

Alomar, 2b       1 0 0  0     Menke, 2b     0 0 0  0

                              Morgan, 2b    2 1 1  0

TOTALS          44 4 12 4     TOTALS       43 5 10 4



American      000  001  120 000  -  4-12-0

National      000  000  103 001  -  5-10-0



DP - American 1, National 1; LOB - American 9, 

National 10; 2B - Oliva, Yastrzemski; 3B - B. Robinson; 

HR - Dietz;  S - McDowell; SF - Fosse, Clemente; 

Time - 3:19; Att - 51,838.



AMERICAN      IP  H  R ER BB SO   

Palmer       3.0  1  0  0  1  3   

McDowell     3.0  1  0  0  3  3   

J. Perry     2.0  1  1  1  1  3   

Hunter       0.1  3  3  3  0  0   

Peterson     0.0  1  0  0  0  0   

Stottlemyre  1.2  0  0  0  0  2

Wright (L)   1.2  3  1  1  0  0



NATIONAL      IP  H  R ER BB SO

Seaver       3.0  1  0  0  0  4

Merritt      2.0  1  0  0  0  1

G. Perry     2.0  4  2  2  1  0

Gibson       2.0  3  2  2  1  2

Osteen (W)   3.0  3  0  0  1  0



HBP - Menke (by J. Perry)

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CBS Sportsline

Dynasty2000 · 07-09-01, 11:34 AM

That was back when All-star games meant something and were fun to watch....that's when pride was on the line and the players went out and played their hearts out. A far cry from the boring, bull sh*t, exhibition that the All-star game has become now----now the game is nothing but a popularity contest that means absolutely nothing.

It is no longer the Mid summer classic that it was intended to be....now it is nothing but a small incovienience separating the first half of the season from the second half.

07-09-01, 11:17 AM	#1
CalifYanksFan One of the Originals Join Date: Feb 2000 Location: In Yankee Heaven	Greatest All-Star Game Ever? In an All-Star Game classic, Pete Rose - playing the only way he knew how - bowled over Ray Fosse at home plate in the 12th inning to win the 1970 game at Cincinnati. By Sal Maiorana CBS SportsLine Historian CINCINNATI (July 14, 1970) - On the eve of the 41st major league baseball All-Star Game, Pete Rose met Ray Fosse for the first time, and he asked the young Cleveland Indians catcher to come to his home for dinner. "I didn't know Pete at all until the night before the game," Fosse recalled. "We met at some function and he invited me over to his house and we sat up half the night talking baseball." The next time Rose and Fosse got together - about 24 hours later in the bottom of the 12th inning at Cincinnati's sparkling new Riverfront Stadium - the meeting wasn't quite as social. In one of the most famous plays in baseball history, Rose violently bowled over Fosse at home plate, enabling the sparkplug of the Cincinnati Reds to score the winning run in the National League's come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the American League. "I didn't really know what kind of player Pete was until the next night," said Fosse. "I never got hit like that before. I know he didn't mean it, but who knows, maybe he should have run around me. If he had it would have saved me a lot of pain. We both made the plays that we thought we had to make, a couple of aggressive ballplayers doing their jobs." ROSE WAS VILLIFIED BY MEDIA and fans for smashing into Fosse during a game that did not count in the standings. He had been the National League's rookie of the year in 1963, won the NL batting title the previous two seasons, and throughout his first seven years in the majors had made a name for himself as a hard-working, lunch-pail toting kind of player who the fans could identify with. But once Rose demolished Fosse, his image began to change, and by the time he wiped out New York Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson with a vicious slide in the 1973 divisional playoffs, precipitating a celebrated fight, Rose was a villain in every city he traveled to. Which, of course, was fine with him. "That's the only way I know how to play, I play to win, the way my father taught me to play," Rose said, defending himself in the wake of the Fosse episode. "I play hurt, I play tired, I play as hard as hell. Don't tell me it's an exhibition or spring training. Don't tell me to take it easy between the white lines. That's not me, that's not my dad. If I play a charity softball game for nothing, not a dime, I go all out. Besides, nobody told me they changed it to girls softball between third and home." When the NL rallied for three runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 4-4, Rose struck out with the winning run on first base to end the inning. He had also struck out in his previous at-bat in the eighth. So here was the hometown boy, born and raised in Cincinnati and a member of the Reds, flopping miserably in the All-Star Game in front of President Nixon and 51,838 paying customers at the two-week-old $45 million stadium, and a national TV audience. Naturally, Rose was looking to make amends when he dug himself into the batters box to face Clyde Wright of the California Angels with two outs in the 12th. HE LASHED A SINGLE UP THE MIDDLE and moved to second when Bill Grabarkewitz of the Dodgers singled to left. Jim Hickman of the Cubs then lined a 1-0 fastball to center to send Rose off on his mad dash to the plate. Kansas City's Amos Otis fielded the ball cleanly and rifled a strong throw that sailed a few feet up the third base line. As Fosse moved out to receive the ball, he straddled the foul line and blocked Rose's path, leaving Rose - at least in his mind - no alternative. Just as the ball got to Fosse, Rose lowered his left shoulder and catapulted himself into Fosse's left shoulder. The catcher went flying backward, losing both the ball and his glove, and before he realized what had happened, Rose had touched the plate and the fans were on their feet gleefully celebrating the fantastic finish. "I thought I was beat by the throw," said Rose. "I started to slide head first but I saw I couldn't make it because he was blocking the plate. If I would have slid I would have been out. The only thing I could do was run him over. I didn't care about hurting myself if we could win. "Look, I'm the winning run in the All-Star Game in my hometown. I just want to get to the plate as fast as I can." Like Rose, Fosse was playing to win. If he hadn't blocked the plate, no one would have said a thing about it because this was an All-Star Game. But Fosse was playing the game the way it was supposed to be played, too. "A lot of things were going through my mind when I was waiting for Otis' throw," Fosse said. "This wasn't an ordinary game, the President of the United States had thrown out the first ball, I was young, just 23, I was playing with guys like Frank Robinson and Harmon Killebrew, tremendous names to me. "There's a bad play a catcher can make in that situation, the ole' shot, get out of the way. The runner goes by like a charging bull and you wave a tag at him like a matador. That's the wrong play. The right play is to block the plate. I knew 65 million people were watching on TV, and aside from that I wanted the respect of my peers. I was not going to look like a fool and get out of the way, I was the Cleveland catcher, not the San Diego Chicken." What did others on the field think of Rose's play? "That's just part of the game," said losing AL manager Earl Weaver of the Baltimore Orioles. "Fosse was just trying to block him from the plate." Said Angels shortstop Jim Fregosi: "I didn't particularly like the play. All he had to do is slide and nobody gets hurt." THIS ALL-STAR GAME WAS DOMINATED by pitching in the early going as neither team scored until the sixth inning. Baltimore's Jim Palmer of the AL and New York Met Tom Seaver of the NL started and each threw one-hit ball for three innings of work. Cleveland's Sam McDowell duplicated Palmer's one-hit shutout for the next three innings for the AL, while Cincinnati's Jim Merritt pitched one-hit ball for two innings. In the top of the sixth, San Francisco's Gaylord Perry was touched for the first run as Fosse singled to right, was sacrificed to second by McDowell, and scored with two outs when Boston's Carl Yastrzemski - who would finish with four hits and win MVP honors - looped a RBI single to right-center. In the seventh, the AL made it 2-0 as Baltimore's Brooks Robinson singled and Minnesota's Tony Oliva walked with one out. Davey Johnson of the Orioles then hit a grounder up the middle that went for an infield hit, loading the bases, and Fosse lined a sacrifice fly to center scoring Robinson. With Gaylord's brother, Jim, on the mound for the AL, the NL broke through in the bottom of the seventh when Bud Harrelson of the Mets singled, Cito Gaston of the Padres walked and Houston's Denis Menke was hit by a pitch to load the bases. San Francisco's Willie McCovey then grounded into a double play, but Harrelson scored to cut the NL deficit to 2-1. Bob Gibson took the mound in the eighth for the NL, and the usually dominant Cardinal allowed two runs on three hits to drop the NL in a 4-1 hole. Yastrzemski singled to right, moved to second when Detroit's Willie Horton singled up the middle, and with two outs, both runners scored on Brooks Robinson's triple to center. JIM PERRY PITCHED A PERFECT EIGHTH for the AL, and Gibson shrugged off a walk to Fosse to get out of the top of the ninth unscathed. Weaver then summoned Oakland's Catfish Hunter to nail down the victory, but he was roughed up as Dick Dietz of the Giants homered, Harrelson singled, and after Gaston popped up to first, Joe Morgan of the Astros singled to right with Harrelson stopping at second. Fritz Peterson of the Yankees replaced Hunter and McCovey greeted him with a single up the middle that scored Harrelson and chased Morgan to third. "I'll be seeing that ball for 10 days," Peterson said of McCovey's hit. Peterson departed in favor of his Yankee teammate Mel Stottlemyre, and NL manager Gil Hodges sent Roberto Clemente of Pittsburgh up to pinch-hit for Gibson. Clemente lashed a fly to deep right-center that scored Morgan with the tying run, and then Rose fanned to end the uprising. Weaver, who had picked the nine pitchers on his roster, all starters, was criticized for not having a relief pitcher available for just that situation in the ninth. "Sure I would have liked to have Darold Knowles (Senators) or Ron Perranoski (Twins) in the tough spots, but I only had nine pitchers," Weaver explained. "Maybe it would have been a good idea to have five starters and four relievers. But if I would have selected a relief pitcher for the staff, who would I have dropped off? McDowell or Palmer?" The AL had a runner aboard in each of the 10th and 11th innings but failed to score, while the NL twice went three-and-out. In the top of the 12th, Yastrzemski doubled with two outs off Claude Osteen of the Dodgers, Horton was walked intentionally, and Osteen induced Otis to fly to center for the third out, setting the stage for the climactic bottom half of the inning. Hickman, an original New York Met who had never hit higher than .257 in his first eight seasons until batting .315 in 1970, was an unlikely hero. "I was a little surprised I even got picked for the team," said Hickman, who had encountered airline difficulty, didn't arrive at the stadium until 5 p.m. and missed batting practice. "There were a couple of guys they could have picked ahead of me, including my teammate, Billy Williams. "I guess it (being nervous) showed in my first couple of at bats, I was jumping at the ball. I was just trying to do more than I could. When I came up in the 12th I wanted to hit the ball so bad. Clyde Wright just put a fastball right where I wanted it. Then when I hit it I was hoping it would get in there. This has to be the highlight of my career." THE VICTORY WAS THE EIGHTH IN A ROW for the NL and increased its lead in the all-time series to 23-17-1. There had been six extra-inning All-Star games, and the NL had won every one. "At no time did we think we were going to lose," said Weaver, who was disappointed by the loss because his Orioles had also lost to the upstart Mets in the 1969 World Series. "We weren't beat until we walked into the clubhouse. When am I going to do something right for the American League?" Brooks Robinson, who played in his 14th straight All-Star Game, summed up the AL's frustration best: "You know in the early 1960s you had to admit they could put nine men on the field who had an edge over us. I don't mean the whole league or anything, but they could field a better team of stars. But the last two years I feel our team is as good as theirs and that makes it harder to take when you lose, especially this way in a close game." POSTSCRIPT: Rose missed only 10 games due to injuries in the entire decade of the 1970s, and three came right after his collision with Fosse as he suffered a severely bruised left thigh. But those three games were a pittance compared to what Fosse went through. Fosse was never the same after the collision. He had entered the All-Star Game hitting .313 with 16 home runs, but he hit just two more dingers the rest of the year and saw his average plummet to .268. Originally, doctors diagnosed his injury as a bruised collar bone, but Fosse's power and hitting stroke were profoundly affected, so he knew there was more damage in his shoulder. However, Cleveland manager Alvin Dark, going by what the doctors said, insisted that Fosse was not hurt as badly as he thought and kept his catcher in the lineup. "Don't worry about offense, just handle the pitchers," is what Dark told Fosse. Only when Fosse broke his right index finger - and it was confirmed by x-rays - two months later did Dark sit him down. The following spring, it was revealed that Fosse had been playing all along with a fracture in his shoulder. Fosse never again approached .300 and over the final nine years of his career with Cleveland, Oakland, Cleveland again, Seattle and Milwaukee, his highest home run total was 12. Stats: Boxscore AMERICAN ab r h bi NATIONAL ab r h bi Aparicio, ss 6 0 0 0 Mays, cf 3 0 0 0 Yaz, cf-ib 6 1 4 1 G. Perry, p 0 0 0 0 F. Robinson, lf 3 0 0 0 McCovey, 1b 2 0 1 1 Horton, lf 2 1 2 0 Osteen, p 0 0 0 0 Powell, 1b 3 0 0 0 Torre, ph 1 0 0 0 Otis, cf 3 0 0 0 Allen, 1b 3 0 0 0 Killebrew, 3b 2 0 1 0 Gibson, p 0 0 0 0 Harper, pr 0 0 0 0 Clemente, rf 1 0 0 1 B. Robinson, 3b 3 1 2 2 Aaron, rf 2 0 0 0 Howard, lf 2 0 0 0 Rose, lf 3 1 1 0 Oliva, rf 2 0 1 0 Perez, 3b 3 0 0 0 D. Johnson, 2b 5 0 1 0 Grbrkwitz, 3b 3 0 1 0 Wright, p 0 0 0 0 Carty, lf 1 0 0 0 Freehan, c 1 0 0 0 Hickman, 1b 4 0 1 1 Fosse, c 2 1 1 1 Bench, c 3 0 0 0 Palmer, p 1 0 0 0 Dietz, c 2 1 1 1 McDowell, p 0 0 0 0 Kessinger, ss 2 0 2 0 A. Johnson, ph 1 0 0 0 Harrelson, ss 3 2 2 0 J. Perry, p 0 0 0 0 Beckert, 2b 2 0 0 0 Fregosi, ph 1 0 0 0 Gaston, cf 2 0 0 0 Hunter, p 0 0 0 0 Seaver, p 0 0 0 0 Peterson, p 0 0 0 0 Staub, ph 1 0 0 0 Stottlemyre, p 0 0 0 0 Merritt, p 0 0 0 0 Alomar, 2b 1 0 0 0 Menke, 2b 0 0 0 0 Morgan, 2b 2 1 1 0 TOTALS 44 4 12 4 TOTALS 43 5 10 4 American 000 001 120 000 - 4-12-0 National 000 000 103 001 - 5-10-0 DP - American 1, National 1; LOB - American 9, National 10; 2B - Oliva, Yastrzemski; 3B - B. Robinson; HR - Dietz; S - McDowell; SF - Fosse, Clemente; Time - 3:19; Att - 51,838. AMERICAN IP H R ER BB SO Palmer 3.0 1 0 0 1 3 McDowell 3.0 1 0 0 3 3 J. Perry 2.0 1 1 1 1 3 Hunter 0.1 3 3 3 0 0 Peterson 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 Stottlemyre 1.2 0 0 0 0 2 Wright (L) 1.2 3 1 1 0 0 NATIONAL IP H R ER BB SO Seaver 3.0 1 0 0 0 4 Merritt 2.0 1 0 0 0 1 G. Perry 2.0 4 2 2 1 0 Gibson 2.0 3 2 2 1 2 Osteen (W) 3.0 3 0 0 1 0 HBP - Menke (by J. Perry) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CBS Sportsline
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07-09-01, 11:34 AM	#2
Dynasty2000 Addicted Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: New York City	That was back when All-star games meant something and were fun to watch....that's when pride was on the line and the players went out and played their hearts out. A far cry from the boring, bull sh*t, exhibition that the All-star game has become now----now the game is nothing but a popularity contest that means absolutely nothing. It is no longer the Mid summer classic that it was intended to be....now it is nothing but a small incovienience separating the first half of the season from the second half.


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