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2022 MLB All Star Game
The 2022 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 92nd Major League Baseball All-Star Game, held between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball (MLB). The game was hosted by the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. The game was played on July 19, broadcast nationally by Fox, Fox Deportes, and ESPN Radio. The American League defeated the National League 3–2, for its ninth straight All-Star Game win. Coincidentally, the previous time Dodger Stadium hosted the game in 1980, that year's result gave the National League its ninth straight win as well. Background Host selection The Dodgers were awarded the 2022 MLB All-Star Game after the 2020 contest, which they were originally scheduled to host, was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. This marked the first time in 42 years (and fourth time overall) that the Dodgers hosted an All-Star Game, the previous occurrences being in 1949 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn (whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American League
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the American League (AL), is the younger of two sports leagues, leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It developed from the Western League (original), Western League, a minor league based in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes states, which eventually aspired to Major League Baseball, major league status. It is sometimes called the Junior Circuit because it claimed Major League status for the 1901 season, 25 years after the formation of the National League (baseball), National League (the "Senior Circuit"). Since 1903, the American League champion has played in the World Series against the National League champion with only two exceptions: 1904, when the NL champion New York Giants (baseball), New York Giants refused to play their AL counterpart, and 1994, when a 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, players' strike resulted in the cancellation of the Series. Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 U.S. state, states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States asserts sovereignty over five Territories of the United States, major island territories and United States Minor Outlying Islands, various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest land area and List of countries and dependencies by population, third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three Metropolitan statistical areas by population, largest metropolitan areas are New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Glanville
Douglas Metunwa Glanville (born August 25, 1970) is an American former professional baseball outfielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Texas Rangers. He is also a broadcast color analyst for baseball, currently working with Marquee Sports Network and ESPN, and a contributor to ''The Athletic''. Early life and education Glanville grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended Teaneck High School, graduating in 1988. His mother was a math teacher and his father a psychiatrist. He was a childhood friend of future basketball coach Lawrence Frank. Glanville attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he majored in systems engineering. He is one of only five Penn alumni to play in Major League Baseball since 1951, and the first African-American Ivy League graduate to play in the majors. In 1990, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Wareham Gatemen of the Cape Cod Baseball League, and received the league's Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Sciambi
Jon "Boog" Sciambi () (born April 11, 1970) is an American sportscaster for ESPN and the Marquee Sports Network, and has been the everyday play-by-play announcer for the Chicago Cubs TV broadcasts on Marquee since 2021. He has worked extensively as a baseball play-by-play announcer, calling games for ESPN television and on ESPN Radio. Sciambi's nickname, "Boog," was given to him by Hank Goldberg because of his physical resemblance to former major league player Boog Powell. Early life Born in Philadelphia, Sciambi grew up on Roosevelt Island in New York City. He is a graduate of Regis High School in New York City and Boston College. Career As Sciambi attended Boston College, he began his sportscasting experience on WZBC, the school's 1000-watt FM radio station broadcasting to the Greater Boston area. Classmates and fellow broadcasters at WZBC included Joe Tessitore and Bob Wischusen, both of whom also went on to become successful sports announcers. Sciambi was an announc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball On ESPN Radio
''Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio'' is the brand name for exclusive play-by-play broadcast presentation of Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio. The coverage has most recently been presented by Indeed, along with AutoZone for the postseason; previous presenting sponsors included Wendy's, Barbasol, Nesquik, DraftKings, Xerox, AutoZone, Excedrin, United States Postal Service and Mercedes-Benz. History In 1997, ESPN Radio outbid CBS Radio to become the exclusive national radio broadcaster of Major League Baseball beginning the following year. CBS Radio had been the national radio broadcaster since 1976. The agreement lasted seven years through 2004 and gave ESPN Radio the rights to broadcast numerous games including '' Sunday Night Baseball'', Saturday '' Game of the Week'', Opening Day and holiday games, September weekday pennant race games, the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby, and all of the playoffs, including the World Series. In 2004, ESPN Radio extended the de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Plesac
Daniel Thomas Plesac (born February 4, 1962) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1986 to 2003. He pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies. Early life Plesac attended Crown Point High School in Crown Point, Indiana, where he excelled in baseball, basketball, football, and track. Plesac played college baseball for the NC State Wolfpack in the early 1980s. Plesac was inducted to the North Carolina State Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. Major Leagues A hard thrower with a mid-90 mph fastball and great slider, Plesac was originally a starting pitcher before becoming the closer of the Milwaukee Brewers. Plesac served primarily as a left-handed specialist from the mid-1990s until the end of his career, pitching for the Blue Jays twice, the Diamondbacks, and the Phillies. He was elected to the American League All-Star team three times (1987, 1988 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Benetti
Jason Robert Benetti (born September 9, 1983) is an American sportscaster. He is the primary television play-by-play announcer for the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball on FanDuel Sports Network. From 2016 to 2023, Benetti was the lead play-by-play announcer for Chicago White Sox of MLB, and served as an alternate play-by-play announcer for Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association, on NBC Sports Chicago. Now primarily contracted with Fox Sports nationally, Benetti was formerly the main announcer for ESPN's alternate "StatCast" telecasts, and additionally has worked for NBC Sports, Westwood One, and Time Warner covering football, baseball, lacrosse, hockey, and basketball. Early life and education Benetti was born ten weeks prematurely at the University of Chicago Hospital, where he remained for the first three months of his life. While in intensive care, Benetti developed a respiratory illness that deprived his blood of oxygen; this may have caused his cerebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Gonzalez (infielder)
Edgar Gonzalez (born June 14, 1978) is an American former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants. Professional career Tampa Bay Devil Rays In Gonzalez batted .270 with seven doubles, seven triples, 16 RBIs and nine stolen bases in a combined 61 games with the Rookie-Level Princeton Devil Rays and the short-season Hudson Valley Renegades. Gonzalez led the New York–Penn League in in total bases with 146, and hits with 92. He was second in batting average and games, third in slugging percentage, fourth in runs and extra-base hits and fifth in doubles. He played 73 games in '01. He played a career-high 134 games with the Class-A Charleston RiverDogs in . 128 of those games at third base with just one game played at second base. He finished the season hitting .275 with 123 hits, 28 doubles, eight home runs and 62 RBIs in 447 at bats Playin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Garcia Marquez
Adrian Garcia Marquez (born December 28, 1973) is an American sportscaster who works for Fox Deportes as a play-by-play announcer, narrator, and host. He also serves as one of the international voices of the NBA calling action on the NBA League Pass. Prior to joining Fox and the NBA, he was with the Los Angeles Lakers for 6 seasons serving as the team's Spanish TV play-by-play announcer on Time Warner Cable Deportes later becoming Spectrum Deportes. In his time calling Lakers basketball, he became an Emmy Award-winning announcer while also securing two NBA 'Best Live Call' Awards and 3 straight 'Best TV Play by Play in Spanish' Awards from the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He also received two "Call of the Year" nominations from SCSB for 2017 and 2018. In 2017 he was runner-up to the legendary Vin Scully, who upon receiving the award said "I think you gave it to the wrong guy, he (Adrian) should have won!". Before joining the Lakers, Garcia Marquez wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Verducci
Thomas Verducci (born October 23, 1960) is an American sportswriter who writes for ''Sports Illustrated'' and its online magazine SI.com. He writes primarily about baseball. He is also a reporter and commentator for Fox Major League Baseball and MLB Network. Early life and education Verducci was born in East Orange, New Jersey, and raised in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Glen Ridge. He attended Seton Hall Preparatory School, Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, New Jersey, and then went to Penn State, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, B.A. in journalism, where he was a reporter for ''The Daily Collegian'' and appeared in the first edition of ''The Weekly Collegian''. On July 12, 2016, Verducci revealed he was a New York Mets, Mets fan growing up. Writing career After a one-year stint at ''Florida Today'', Verducci moved to ''New York Newsday'' in 1983, becoming a columnist in 1990. He began writing for ''Sports Illustrated'' in 1993. In 2005, while writing for ''Sports Illustrated'', V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Rosenthal
Ken Rosenthal (born September 19, 1962) is an American sportswriter and reporter. He has served as a field reporter for '' Fox Major League Baseball'' since 2005, and was an in-studio reporter for MLB Network from 2009 to 2022. Since August 2017, he is a senior baseball writer for ''The Athletic''. Early life Rosenthal was born in Queens, New York City, and grew up in the Long Island town of Oyster Bay, where he went to Oyster Bay High School. Rosenthal is Jewish. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984. Career Beginnings After serving as an intern covering sports for ''Newsday'' on Long Island, Rosenthal began his career at the '' York Daily Record'' in 1984. He moved on to the ''Courier-Post'' in Cherry Hill, New Jersey for two years before landing a full-time job with The '' Baltimore Sun'', where he was named Maryland Sportswriter of the Year five times by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association during his tenure from 1987 to 2000. Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smoltz
John Andrew Smoltz (born May 15, 1967), nicknamed "Smoltzie" and "Marmaduke", is an American former baseball pitcher who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball from 1988 to 2009, all but the last year with the Atlanta Braves. An eight-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game, All-Star, Smoltz was part of a Big Three (Atlanta Braves), celebrated trio of starting pitchers, along with Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine, who propelled Atlanta to perennial pennant contention in the 1990s, highlighted by a championship in the 1995 World Series. He won the National League (baseball), National League (NL) Cy Young Award in 1996 after posting a win–loss record (pitching), record of 24–8, equaling the most victories by an NL pitcher since 1972. He also played for the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. Though predominantly known as a starter, Smoltz was converted to a relief pitcher, reliever in 2001 after his recovery from Tommy John surgery, and spent four years as the team's clo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
