Today’s All-Star game is the third in Minnesota, and the third in a different stadium. Today’s game will be the first in Minnesota without Pete Rose in the lineup, after Charlie Hustle started the 1965 game and appeared as a pinch-hitter in 1985, the latter appearance at age 44 making Rose the oldest NL All-Star (Satchel Paige was the oldest AL All-Star at age 47 in 1953) . Today’s game will also be the first in Minnesota with the DH, as that innovation made a delayed All-Star appearance only in 1989.
More on Minnesota’s all-star history after the jump.
The 1965 game was hosted by that year’s AL champs, as were the subsequent 1977 and 1997 games. The 1970 Reds are the last NL team to host an A-S game and go on to win the pennant.
The 1965 game was the second of three with two pitchers in the game (Milt Pappas, Dan Maloney) allowing two home runs, but the only one of those games (the others were in 1951 and 1971) with both of those pitchers being thus victimized in a single inning. Here are the pitchers who appeared in 1965. Is it just me or does the AL not appear a little over-matched?
| NL Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | BF | GSc | WPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Marichal | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 57 | 0.096 |
| Jim Maloney | 1.2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | -0.420 | |
| Don Drysdale | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.014 | |
| Sandy Koufax, W (1-0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0.073 | |
| Turk Farrell, H (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0.104 | |
| Bob Gibson, S (1) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0.321 | |
| Team Totals | 9 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 40 | 57 | 0.188 |
| AL Pitching | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR | BF | GSc | WPA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milt Pappas | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 32 | -0.251 |
| Mudcat Grant | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -0.085 | |
| Pete Richert | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0.027 | |
| Sam McDowell, L (0-1) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | -0.082 | |
| Eddie Fisher | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0.080 | |
| Team Totals | 9 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 40 | 32 | -0.311 |
Over-matched or not, the AL hung a nasty WPA score on Jim Maloney, the second lowest for an All-Star pitcher who did not record a loss or blown save; the only lower score was -0.543 by the NL’s Roy Face in the first 1959 game, like 1965 a one-run victory for the senior circuit.
The 1985 game was the only time that the NL has had 4 players hit a double, something the AL has done 5 times, most recently in last year’s game. This game was also the third time that the AL drove in its only run with a sacrifice fly, something that the NL didn’t do until the 2001 game.
Quiz time: Jack Morris took the loss for the AL in 1985 while representing the defending world champions.
- Before Morris, who was the last non-Yankee pitcher to lose the A-S game while representing the defending world champions?
- Who is the only pitcher to play on a world championship team and take the loss in the next year’s A-S game while representing a different team?
