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The MLB All-Star Game will be defined with a Home Run Derby

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Pete Alonso I was in the visiting locker room at Truist Park last week when an attendee asked a perplexing question: Would the baseball player accept New York Mets a call from the boss of the Atlanta Braves, Brian Snitker?

“Why is the opposing manager calling me?”Alonzo thought. He quickly found out. Snitker was preparing to be manager of the National League in the All-Star Game and I had an important question, based on a rule changefan-friendly and to be featured in this edition.

If the board is tied after nine innings in the Stars game which will take place on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadiumwould Alonso agree to participate in a new tiebreaker system, a Home Run Derby to decide the winning team.

“I would be the one”Alonzo replied. “I think it will be fun. I think it will be a great event if it happens”. Alonso was not aware of the new format, in which three players from each league would take three tries each to decide the final result. He was not the only one to discover the surprise.

“Would that really happen?” asked the Yankees player, Giancarlo Stanton. “It is new for me”. Snitker also chose Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr. and Kyle Schwarberof Philadelphiafor the National League, while Dusty Bakerof the Houston Astrosselected a Julio Rodriguez and Ty France, of SeattleWith Kyle Tuckerfrom Houston, for the American.

″Are you going to do that? It would be fun,” said the Dodgers first baseman, Freddie Freeman. “We have Pete Alonso y Ronaldso I like our odds.”

The provision that paved the way for this innovation was buried in annex 13 of the memorandum of understanding that resolved the major league lockout on March 10.

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