Standout Stats
The American League has won the last six all-star games and outscored the National League 28-15 over that span. The AL is 6-0 ATS through this winning series too.
Since 2008, the total has gone UNDER in eight of those 11 games with an average combined score of 6.82. Just one match over that span featured more than 10 runs.
The two starting pitchers are very likely to throw only an inning or maybe two before turning it on to some stacked bullpens. I give the edge to the NL as far as arms move with the likes of Mike Soroka (ATL), Jacob deGrom (NYM), Max Scherzer (WSN) and Clayton Kershaw (LAD) coming following Hyun-Jin Ryu gets relieved.
The AL bullpen has some elite arms on with Verlander starting, to be followed in some order by Gerrit Cole (HOU), Lucas Giolito (CWS) and Jose Berrios (MIN). Following that, I believe the AL team is not as striking as the NL’s.
Since there is lots of electricity both among the starters and reservations whereas the AL starting lineup is head and shoulders over its seat reservations I give the nod to the NL bats. Both starting lineups have two first time all-stars: Ketel Marte (ARI) and Ronald Acuna (ATL) for the National League, and Carlos Santana (CLE) and Jorge Polanco (MIN) for the American League.
With the game taking place at Progressive Field, the National League is going to have DH and a good deal of options such as rookie Pete Alonso (NYM), that was not chosen as the starting first baseman over Freddie Freeman (ATL).
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