all star game

Yankees' hitting coach Rachel Balkovec finished the MLB Futures Game with what will likely be a footnote in a long career in professional baseball.

Tonight over 6 million people will tune in their televisions to a sold out Coors Field in Colorado to see Major League Baseball players take glorified batting practice. A pitcher, that the Major League hitter is familiar with, will attempt to throw perfect pitches and the batter will attempt to deposit them deep into the caverns of seats in the outfield filled outstretched arms attached to gloves waiting to absorb a piece of baseball history.

The baseball fans that still watch the All Star Game want to see the game's best players. That's it in a nutshell. Jacob deGrom, Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa are some of the games biggest stars. Jacob deGrom is among the top 2 or 3 very best. If it's not important to those players, why should it be important to the fans?

Year in and year out during the all star break the country gets to see the best sluggers in baseball duke it out. Here is why this year is a can't miss event.

Major League Baseball All-Star voting has always been pretty run of the mill. You go to the ballpark, fill out a ballot and that's about it. Hopefully, your favorite player makes the cut. But this year, Milwaukee Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy is spicing things up a bit.

The MLB All-Star Game was more or less over after the first inning when Justin Verlander gave up five runs to the National League squad.

The action was fantastic last night at least, and there should be more entertainment coming our way this evening.