{"id":439597,"date":"2023-07-12T04:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=439597"},"modified":"2023-07-12T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T08:23:02","slug":"national-league-edges-out-al-3-2-to-snap-decade-long-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/national-league-edges-out-al-3-2-to-snap-decade-long-losing-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"National League edges out AL 3-2 to snap decade-long losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National League came out on top 3-2 against the American League in the All-Star Game to end more than a decade long winless streak\u00a0 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The drought is over! The National League wins the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllStarGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AllStarGame<\/a> for the first time since 2012! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CytyuQWT00\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/CytyuQWT00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1678969110753943552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The star of the show was undoubtedly Elias Diaz as the Colorado man hit a two-run homer off Felix Bautista in the 8th inning that proved vital and gave the National League the edge.<\/p>\n<p>It was no surprise that Diaz was given the MVP award at the end as he registered his 9th homer this season, his first since June 23 against the Los Angeles Angels.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A massive homer to break the streak earns Elias D\u00edaz <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AllStarGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#AllStarGame<\/a> Ted Williams MVP honors. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/76cQzDY1kO\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/76cQzDY1kO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1678971795448254465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as he walked in the clubhouse and I met him, he said, \u2018I\u2019ll do anything you want. If I play, I play. If I don\u2019t, I don\u2019t. I\u2019m just so happy to be here,\u2019\u201d NL manager Rob Thomson said. \u201cSo for him to do that, it\u2019s fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yandy D\u00edaz hit a solo homer in the second and Bo Bichette\u2019s sacrifice fly in the sixth gave the AL a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>J.D. Martinez doubled and scored on Luis Arraez\u2019s single in the fourth against Seattle\u2019s George Kirby, tying it at 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National League came out on top 3-2 against the American League in the All-Star Game to end more than a decade long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":439598,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17209,20192],"news_category":[16708],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"Elias Diaz shining with an all important homer in the 8th"},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439597"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439597"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}