{"id":229124,"date":"2021-07-02T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229124"},"modified":"2021-07-02T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:50:15","slug":"mlb-all-star-game-starters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229124","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball All Star Game Starters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Major League All-Star Game will include two slugging sons of former big leaguers.<\/p>\n<p>Padres outfielder Fernando Tatis (tah-TEES\u2019) Jr. will be among the starters for the National League, while Blue Jays outfielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will represent the American League. They are among nine first-time All-Stars elected Thursday to start the July 13 game at Colorado\u2019s Coors Field.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero will be joined in the AL starting lineup by Toronto teammates Marcus Semien and Teoscar (tay-AHS\u2019-kur) Hernandez. The rest of the AL starters are Royals catcher Salvador Perez, Red Sox infielders Rafael Devers (DEH\u2019-vurs) and Xander Bogaerts (BOH\u2019-gahrts), Angels DH Shohei Ohtani (SHOH\u2019-hay oh-TAH\u2019-nee), and Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge. Angels outfielder Mike Trout was selected as a starter but won\u2019t be available.<\/p>\n<p>Reds outfielders Nick Castellanos (kas-tee-AH\u2019-nohs) and Jesse Winker are NL starters, as are Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman and outfielder Ronald Acuna (ah-KOON\u2019-yuh) Jr. Giants catcher Buster Posey, Pirates second baseman Adam Frazier and Cardinals third baseman Nolan Arenado (ar-eh-NAH\u2019-doh) round out the NL lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The Major League All-Star Game will include two slugging sons of former big leaguers. Padres outfielder Fernando Tatis (tah-TEES\u2019) Jr. will be among the starters for the National League, while Blue Jays outfielder Vladimir Guerrero Jr. will represent the American League. They are among nine first-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229129,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229124\/revisions\/229129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}