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Sale, Scherzer set to start All-Star Game; O’s Davis doubles in 1st rehab game
He even hit the roof.
The larger-than-life New York Yankees slugger dominated the All-Star Home Run Derby in the same manner he has smashed his way through his rookie season, beating the Minnesota Twins’
“It was a blast. I enjoyed every minute of it — watching the other guys swing, coming here early and talking to the media,” Judge said. “Everything about today was fantastic.”
Five years ago, Judge won the college home run derby in Omaha, Neb. This time, he outslugged some of baseball’s top stars, including local favorites
“A lot more fans,” Judge said. “Your adrenaline is pumping, you’re nervous, you’re excited. But this was an incredible experience.”
Judge, 6 feet 7 and 282 pounds, hit 47 home runs in the derby that totaled 3.9 miles. His longest drive of the night went 513 feet, and he topped 500 four times.
“I thought I had seen it all before. He didn’t even look like he was getting tired,” said the Seattle Mariners’
Judge had no trouble hitting the roof, thought to be previously untouched by batted ball. That drive didn’t count.
“I got it in BP, too, earlier. So I wasn’t too surprised by that,” Judge said.
Hitting second each time, Judge knocked out Bour, 23-22, in the first round and beat Los Angeles Dodgers rookie
“That guy Aaron Judge, he doesn’t get tired,” Sano said.
Many of the All-Stars sat in foul territory, some with their kids.
“I had never seen him in person. He’s really impressive,” said the Colorado Rockies’
Judge leads the major leagues with 30 home runs, and some Yankees fans showed up to support him in their full dress — flowing black robes and white powdered wigs. Booed initially by the crowd of 37,027, Judge earned cheers once Stanton, the defending champion, and Bour were eliminated in the first round.
Judge has hit the longest home run in the regular season this year — 495 feet.
In tonight’s game, he’s set to bat third for the American League.
Sano beat the Kansas City Royals’
The Boston Red Sox ace will start tonight’s game in Miami for the American League, and the Washington Nationals’
Then with the Chicago White Sox, Sale pitched the first inning of last year’s game in San Diego and allowed a two-out home run to the Chicago Cubs’
Sale will be the 16th pitcher to make consecutive All-Star starts, the first since the Arizona Diamondbacks’
“All my family lives here. Brothers, sisters, in-laws, parents, even my aunts and uncles and cousins,” Sale said. “So to be able to be here not too far from where I live now is nice. I can have my family, extended family come down and experience this with me.
“At the end of the day this is something I’ll never forget. This is something I’ll be hopefully sitting in a rocking chair when I’m 80 years old telling my grandkids and great-grandkids and things like that.”
Scherzer also will be making his second All-Star start. Then with the Detroit Tigers, he pitched a perfect inning at the New York Mets’ Citi Field in 2013, when Sale followed with a pair of 1-2-3 innings and got the win. Scherzer will be the fifth pitcher to start All-Star Games for both leagues, following
Sale and Scherzer took turns complimenting each other at Monday’s announcement of the All-Star lineups.
“I love the way Chris goes out and competes. He’ll do anything to win. He makes big-time pitches all the way — even if he takes 120 pitches. By far he’s been one of my favorite players, pitchers to watch. It’s even better to compete against him,” Scherzer said.
Sale echoed that sentiment.
“I could almost say the same thing. I don’t know if I’ve seen a guy compete as hard as he competes day in and day out,” Sale said. “The fire, the intensity, the role model he can be for kids coming up to kind of take the bull by the horns and just compete. It’s fun.”
Long before they turned pro, Sale and Scherzer both played for the La Crosse Loggers in a summer league in Wisconsin. They were there a couple years apart.
“So that’s pretty interesting, too. We’ve had some ties for a while and played against each other for a while, too,” Sale said.
Dodgers ace
NL manager
Maddon said it was a “pretty easy decision” to slot Stanton as the DH.
“Looking at the breakdown of the team positionally, I thought to draw a DH out of the outfield was smart, or possibly a first baseman, having three outstanding first baseman,” Maddon said. “And furthermore playing here under the circumstances I thought it was the right thing to do.”
AL manager
Mills, Cleveland’s bench coach, took over as AL manager after Indians manager
Davis, who suffered the strain on June 12 in Chicago, has a second appearance scheduled Wednesday for Low-A Delmarva before he is activated when the second half begins Friday night against the Chicago Cubs.
He walked and struck out twice in his other three plate appearances.
“Absolutely, I’m going to do it — if I’m an All-Star,” Harper said. “If I make the team, then I’ll definitely do it.”
Harper, 24, has been an All-Star in five of his first six major league seasons. He last participated in the derby in 2013, when the All-Star Game was held at New York’s CitiField. He didn’t make the All-Star team in 2014, then sat out the derby in 2015 in Cincinnati and again last year.
All three groups are doing the financing and legal work needed before reaching an agreement to buy the team, and Loria will then choose a winner in the competition, Manfred said Monday.
Manfred made his comments as the Marlins prepared to host the first All-Star Game today.
Other topics included:
“I think it would be difficult to convince the owners to go forward with an expansion until those situations are resolved,” Manfred said. “Once they’re done, I think we have some great candidates,” Manfred said. “I know the mayor of Montreal has been very vocal about bringing baseball back to Montreal. Charlotte is a possibility. And I would like to think that Mexico City or some place in Mexico would be another possibility.”