Top 10 Chicago All-Star Game moments
July 12, 2016: The only pitch Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant saw from White Sox left-hander Chris Sale was 96 mph and landed 410 feet away from home plate at Petco Park in San Diego, the same city in which Bryant was a college player just two years earlier. Bryant had struck out all six times he batted against Sale before facing him in the first inning that night.
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Chicago’s history with the All-Star game goes back to the first one, played in 1933 at Comiskey Park. Since then, the city and the team have provided some memorable Midsummer Classic moments.
July 12, 2016: An all-Cubs infield of Anthony Rizzo, Ben Zobrist, Addison Russell and Kris Bryant took the field at Petco Park to start the game, the first time since the Cardinals in 1963 to accomplish the feat. The Cubs had seven All-Stars in all and five elected as starters, though center fielder Dexter Fowler sat out with an injury.
(Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune)July 6, 1983: The game returned to its original home, Comiskey Park, for the third and final time 50 years to the day after the first one was played there. Angels outfielder Fred Lynn celebrated by hitting the first — and still only — grand slam in All-Star game history in the third inning as the American League won 13-3, a record for runs scored in the game. The Giants’ Atlee Hammaker allowed Lynn’s home run, and gave up seven runs in while recording just two outs in that third inning
(Bob Langer / Chicago Tribune)July 15, 2003: A year after the second tie in All-Star game history, the exhibition returned to the South Side for the fourth time. And this time it counted for something — home-field advantage in the World Series. Sox right-hander Esteban Loaiza threw two scoreless innings to start game, which the American League won 7-6. Dodgers closer Eric Gagne, who did not blow a save all season, blew the save in this one after giving up a home run to the Rangers’ Hank Blalock.
(Scott Strazzante / Chicago Tribune)July 30, 1962: White Sox right-hander Ray Herbert had a career year in 1962, going 20-9 with a 3.27 ERA. He also earned the victory for the American League in enemy territory at Wrigley Field in one of two All-Star games played that year.
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