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All-Star Game earns lowest TV rating

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has earned its lowest-ever television rating.

The National League’s 3-1 victory Tuesday night on Fox earned a 7.5 fast national rating and 13 share. That’s down 16 percent from the 8.9/15 for last season’s game, a 4-3 win by the AL.

The previous low was an 8.1/14 [...]

McCann comes up big, NL finally wins All-Star game

Associated Press

One double was all the National League needed to capture its first Midsummer Classic since 1996.

ANAHEIM, Calif. —Brian McCann, Scott Rolen or Heath Bell might really appreciate what happened on this July night come October. Charlie Manuel, too.

An All-Star win the National League thought was long overdue. And with it, home-field [...]

Votto in the running for NL's Final Vote

By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com

First baseman big reason for Reds' first-half success

CHICAGO — Reds first baseman Joey Votto is as deserving as anybody to make the National League All-Star team this year. But Votto was overlooked and will need assistance from the fans to get there.

Votto was named as one of five players that can [...]

Jose Lima dies at 37

Associated Press

Authorities say paramedics found former major league pitcher Jose Lima, 37, in full cardiac arrest at his home in Pasadena Calif., early Sunday, and he was taken to Huntington Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

LOS ANGELES — Jose Lima, a right-hand pitcher who was a 20-game winner and an All-Star during [...]

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