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Come Fan with UsThursday, July 2, 2026

MLB All-Star Game 2011: Andre Ethier Adds To NL Lead

There is not a single unattractive person currently in or around the Chase Field pool. I have been to Arizona. I have been to Phoenix. I give 20% odds those people arrived there organically, 40% odds those people were placed, and 40% odds those people are detailed moving holograms, which is the future of .gif technology.

Clayton Kershaw handled the top of the fifth for the NL with ease, needing just eight pitches to record a strikeout and two grounders. One can't help but credit Yadier Molina for calling eight good pitches, after he replaced Brian McCann, who called several worse pitches in the fourth. Baseball is really all about the catchers, and pitchers are only as good or bad as the catchers who catch them.

To the bottom half we went, with Jordan Walden taking over as the AL's fifth pitcher. He allowed a leadoff single to Troy Tulowitzki, who was immediately replaced with pinch-runner Starlin Castro. Castro stole second, advanced to third on a ball in the dirt, and was then thrown out at home on a tapper back to the mound, negating all the hard work he'd just done. Youth mistake. The NL did end up scoring again on an RBI single by Andre Ethier, but rather than describe that I'm just going to give you a poor recording of the Justin Timberlake interview from before:

In case you missed it, watch it before it’s pulled down!

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