Kershaw to start All-Star Game for NL, McClanahan for AL

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will begin for the Nationwide League on Tuesday night time within the first All-Star Sport at Dodger Stadium since 1980, and Tampa Bay’s Shane McClanahan will probably be on the mound for the American League.

Los Angeles Angels two-way star Shohei Ohtani will lead off for the AL because the designated hitter. Final yr, he was the beginning pitcher and led off because the DH within the AL’s 5-2 win at Denver.

The 34-year-old Kershaw, a three-time Cy Younger Award winner, is 7-2 with a 2.14 ERA and 75 strikeouts in 71 2/3 innings. Two years in the past, he helped Los Angeles win its first World Collection title since 1988.

Kershaw, who handed Don Sutton in April for the workforce profession strikeouts lead, will turn into the third Dodgers pitcher to begin within the final seven All-Star Video games, following Zack Greinke in 2015 at Cincinnati and Hyun Jin Ryu in 2019 at Cleveland. He would be the thirteenth pitcher to begin in his house ballpark, the primary since former teammate Max Scherzer in 2018 at Washington.

In a matchup of left-handers, McClanahan turns into the second Rays pitcher to begin an All-Star recreation after David Value in 2010 at Anaheim. McClanahan, a first-time All-Star, is 10-3 with a serious league-leading 1.71 ERA and 147 strikeouts in 110 2/3 innings.

Ohtani is adopted within the AL batting order by New York Yankees proper fielder Aaron Choose, Boston third baseman Rafael Devers, Toronto first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Yankees left fielder Giancarlo Stanton, Minnesota middle fielder Byron Buxton, Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, Cleveland second baseman Andrés Giménez and Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk.

Atlanta proper fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. will lead off for the NL and be adopted by Dodgers middle fielder Mookie Betts, San Diego third baseman Manny Machado, St. Louis first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, Dodgers shortstop Trea Turner, Chicago Cubs catcher Willson Contreras, Atlanta designated hitter William Contreras, San Francisco left fielder Joc Pederson and New York Mets second baseman Jeff McNeil.

Willson and William Contreras are the primary set of brothers to make the All-Star rosters in the identical yr since Aaron and Bret Boone in 2003. The Contreras siblings are the fifth pair of brothers to begin collectively within the All-Star Sport, becoming a member of Mort and Walker Cooper in 1942 and ’43, Dixie and Harry Walker in 1947, Joe and Dom DiMaggio in 1949 and Roberto and Sandy Alomar Jr. in 1992.

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Los Angeles Dodgers beginning pitcher Clayton Kershaw throws to the plate through the seventh inning of a baseball recreation in opposition to the Los Angeles Angels Friday, July 15, 2022, in Anaheim, Calif.

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