All Star Game Recap

Since this is my first ever post game post, I feel that I need to explain a few things. For every game, I will try to do a post-game post which will recap some of the interesting portions of the game. I will also add a MVB which stands for Most Valuable Brewer and a LVB or Least Valuable Brewers. I will calculate these based on a formula that I created, which I will explain in depth tomorrow.

The first four innings of this game were a complete pitching duel. For the NL, Jimenez pitched a solid, but not great, 2 innings without allowing a run. They then followed it up with 2 perfect innings for Josh Johnson, striking out two. The game remained scoreless until the 5th when Evan Longoria walked. An error on pitcher Kuo with Mauer batting moved him to Longoria. He then scored on a sac fly by Robinson Cano. The NL the escaped the inning with no further damage. The game remained 1-0 until the 7th, when the NL rallied with 2 outs to load the bases. Brian McCann drilled a 0-1 count pitch to right field for a bases clearing double. That double made the score 3-1.

After a disappointing top of the 9th, the AL was batting to stay in it. After a single from David Ortiz, Adrian Beltre struck out for the first out. A head up play on a single by Joe Buck, in which RF Byrd through out David Ortiz, who misreading the play and retreated back to second, made it two outs. With two outs, Kinsler drilled the first pitch to deep right center field, but it wasn't far enough and the CF Chris Young was able to get under it, ending the game. It was the first win in the last 14 years for the NL.

In this game, the Brewers batters seemed lost to say the least. They only put 1 ball in play in 4 ab. They also struck out 3 times. It might have been better to stick Gallardo, at least he couldn't do any worse. On the the VB's.

MVB: Braun -> -4

LVB: Hart -> -4

Becuase they tied in score, I made a judgement call on who would be most valuable. Since Hart struck out with runners on 1st and 3rd in the 5th inning, I credited him with the least valuable. By default this gave it to Braun, who was statistically no better, since he ended the 2nd with a GIDP and struck out with a runner on 2 in the 5th.