Kyle Schwarber couldn’t follow up his disappointing Home Run Derby with an All-Star Game highlight on Tuesday, going 0-for-2 as the National League fell to the American League 3-2 at Dodger Stadium.
Fitting for 2022, it was a game defined by pitching and limited offense, save for the occasional long ball. Shortly after Ronald Acuña Jr. led off the bottom of the first with a double and Mookie Betts drove him in with a single for an early NL lead, Paul Goldschmidt belted a solo shot to deep left field to double it.
Those three hits, plus one more by Trea Turner, constituted a rough All-Star debut for Shane McClanahan, but the American League kept the NL hitless from then until the eighth.