The 2024 MLB All-Star Game from Arlington, Texas, is a wrap — and, yup, the American League is back on top. The Junior Circuit’s 5-3 win marked its 10th victory in 11 years.
After the National League snapped an epic nine-game skid last year, it looked like it might put together back-to-back victories. A standout performance from Pittsburgh Pirates rookie starting pitcher Paul Skenes and a three-run home run off the bat of Los Angeles Dodgers DH Shohei Ohtani put the Senior Circuit ahead early.
But the Junior Circuit stormed back with five unanswered runs, highlighted by a two-run double by New York Yankees outfielder Juan Soto — who came around to score the tying run on a single by Cleveland Guardians catcher David Fry — and a two-run go-ahead home run by Boston Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran, who was named the game’s MVP.
From in-game analysis to our favorite moments from baseball’s most star-studded night, here’s how the Midsummer Classic went down.
Our favorite moments from the 2024 All-Star Game
Alden Gonzalez: No one moment from him stood out — just Juan Soto’s overall vibe. There was staring down Paul Skenes and later drawing a walk to make good on his prediction of reaching base against the electrifying rookie. There was his bullet throw to second base from the right-field corner and trolling Jurickson Profar for not trying to stretch a double. And of course getting a double himself after NL center fielder Teoscar Hernández was too slow to scoop up his base hit up the middle. Nobody is more in on the theatrics than Juan Soto. The game needs more like him.
Jesse Rogers: Shohei Ohtani’s home run off Tanner Houck was a thing of beauty, making Mason Miller’s strikeout of him in his next at-bat in the fifth inning even more impressive. Miller has burst onto the All-Star scene with a dominant first half, firing 299 pitches of 100 mph or more. Add two more triple-digit offerings during Ohtani’s at-bat — mixed between two sliders — and it was the young pitcher who got the “oohs” and “aahs” from the crowd when Ohtani swung and missed on the righty’s fourth pitch. Miller — who also threw a Midsummer Classic record 103.6 mph pitch to Trea Turner — would be fun to watch in October, if he can get out of Oakland.
Updates and analysis from the Midsummer Classic
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