AL Wins!

The American League (in what is becoming oh-so predictable) has defeated the National League 3-2 to win this year's All-Star Game. See The Little League for full coverage of the NL's difficulty playing against baseball's elites.

All-Star Game Update

2 out rally in the 9th! AL takes the lead 3-2, after Paul Konerko starts the rally with a single and Texas' Michael Young slugs a 2 RBI triple to right-center.

Cue Mariano.

The Little League

I don't care what the final score of this year's Major League Baseball All-Star Game ends up at (and it is 2-1 NL in the 8th as I write this), the National League is far, far inferior to the American League. Need proof? How about this from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

"...over the past nine seasons, the AL has gone 8-0-1 [in the All-Star game]. As it turned out, the highlight for the NL was the 7-7 tie in 2002 in Milwaukee, the game that prompted the format change with the World Series tie-in.

"Beyond that dominance, the AL has swept the past two World Series and ran through the NL in interleague play like General Sherman through the South, going 154-98. "

154-98! That's a .611 winning percentage. And yes, the Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Devil Rays are included in that total.

For point of comparison, there are only three teams at the All-Star break whose winning percentage is better than .600. They are:

Tigers
.670

White Sox
.648

Red Sox
.616

And what do all three of these teams have in common? Yep, they're all from the American League.