MLB All-Star Game Odds, Lines, Picks & Betting Prediction

The AL is a short favorite on the MLB odds according to MyBookie Sportsbook and the designated home team.

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Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo is the manager of the NL All-Star team and chose Pittsburgh Pirates rookie righty Paul Skenes to start the game – which is pretty much what everyone wanted to see.

Paul is only 11 starts into his career and became the first No. 1 overall pick to start an All-Star Game the year after being drafted.

Skenes will become only the fifth rookie pitcher to start an All-Star Game since the event debuted in 1933 — and he’ll be the first to do so in nearly 30 years when Hideo Nomo started in 1995 also in Arlington.

Skenes only debuted with the Bucs this season on May 11 and has gone 6-0 with a 1.90 ERA and 89-to-13 K-to-BB ratio over his first 11 outings, securing the starting spot.

Those 11 starts tie Mark Fidrych (1976) for the fewest in a career entering an All-Star start, though Fidrych also had made two relief appearances.

Skenes will become the sixth-youngest pitcher to start the All-Star Game at 22 years and 48 days old, trailing only:

Baltimore’s Jerry Walker (20.172 in 1959)
Valenzuela (20.281 in 1981)
Oakland’s Vida Blue (21.350 in 1971)

Skenes will become the fifth different pitcher in Pirates history to start the Midsummer Classic (sixth time overall), joining Bob Friend (1956, 1960 – Game 1); Vern Law (1960 – Game 2); Dock Ellis (1971); and Jerry Reuss (1975).

In his final start before the break, Skenes threw seven no-hit innings in Milwaukee with 11 strikeouts but was never going to be given the chance to go the distance this early in his career.

It wasn’t until the sixth or seventh inning when Skenes finally started to notice that he had a chance at history, partially because it was a tie game until Yasmani Grandal doubled home Jack Suwinski in the top of the seventh for the only run of the game.

It was Skenes’ his eighth straight start with at least seven strikeouts, the longest streak by a Pirates pitcher.

It was his second start of at least 11 strikeouts over six or more no-hit innings, joining Nolan Ryan as the only American/National League players to do that in the same season.

Ryan did it in 1973 and, it should be noted, he completed the no-hitter in both of those efforts.

With the Cubs’ Shota Imanaga and Skenes, this is just the 10th season with multiple rookie starting pitcher All-Stars in the game.

Add in Oakland’s Mason Miller, and it’s the seventh season with at least three rookie pitcher All-Stars, joining:

2019 John Means, Michael Soroka, Sandy Alcantara
2012 Wade Miley, Ryan Cook, Yu Darvish
2011 Jordan Walden, Aaron Crow, Craig Kimbrel, Michael Pineda
2003 Lance Carter, Mike MacDougal, Dontrelle Willis
1995 Carlos Perez, Tyler Green, Hideo Nomo
1955 Herb Score, Luis Arroyo, Sam Jones

The Phillies originally led the way with seven NL All-Stars — Jeff Hoffman, Matt Strahm, Ranger Suárez, Zack Wheeler, Alec Bohm, Bryce Harper and Trea Turner.

That’s their most in a season in franchise history, surpassing their prior best of five, done six times, most recently in 2011.

But Wheeler and Suarez will not be able to pitch and Phils lefty Cristopher Sanchez has since been added. The team will have 75 percent of the NL’s starting infield with Harper at first, Turner at short and Bohm at third.

Padres infielder Luis Arraez said he will not play in Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game because of an injured left thumb. Arraez was selected to the All-Star Game for a third consecutive season.

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This marks the first time since 1939 and only the third time overall that a reigning World Series champion has hosted the Midsummer Classic (1934 Giants at the Polo Grounds, 1939 Yankees at Yankee Stadium).

AL manager Bruce Bochy of the Texas Rangers has chosen veteran Orioles righty Corbin Burnes as his starting pitcher – he’s the second favorite to win the AL Cy Young in his first season in the league.

In addition, it marks the lowest for any pitcher through the first 19 career starts with Baltimore in team history (since 1954).

He will become the fifth different Orioles pitcher (eighth time) to start the Midsummer Classic, and the first since Steve Stone started the All-Star Game during his 1980 Cy Young Award-winning season.

Other Orioles hurlers to start the Midsummer Classic include:

Jerry Walker 1959

Altuve won’t play and was replaced in the starting lineup by the Rangers’ Marcus Semien.

The AL has lost a handful of good hitters to injuries or the like with Boston’s Rafael Devers, Minnesota’s Carlos Correa and Altuve’s teammate Kyle Tucker also out.

Correa was held out of Minnesota’s 3-2 loss at San Francisco on Sunday after undergoing an MRI which revealed plantar fasciitis in his right foot.

He has been replaced by Rangers shortstop Corey Seager.

Could we see home run history to start the game or end it?

Three straight All-Star Games have not been decided by one run since 2006-09 (4 straight).

We wrote this preview ahead of Monday’s night’s Home Run Derby.

Two players have won the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game MVP in the same year: Cal Ripken Jr. in 1991 & Garrett Anderson in 2003.

National League vs American League Series History

The American League leads all-time 47-44-2. While it’s the first All-Star Game at Globe Life Field, Arlington hosts for the second time.

In 1995, the National League won 3-2 thanks to solo homers from Craig Biggio, Mike Piazza and Jeff Conine.

The two AL runs were from a two-run homer by Frank Thomas. Expect another low-scoring game Tuesday as six of the last seven All-Star Games overall have had fewer than 8 runs scored.

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