The Dodgers and Padres are rivals almost every day out of the year, but they're forced to call a truce and play on the same team for one day of the season. The All-Star Game is all for fun — if we ever saw a benches-clearing brawl in the Midsummer Classic, the resulting ejections and suspensions would be biblical — and division rivals and fans alike can forget how much they hate everyone else for one evening.
In at Atlanta, LA and San Diego's players did a full 180 from when we last saw them on a field together and instead were all smiles and compliments.