MLB All-Star Game Starters, Lineups Announced
BOSTON (AP/CBS) -- Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke will start for the National League in Tuesday night's All-Star Game and Houston Astros lefty Dallas Keuchel will be on the mound for the American League.
The 31-year-old Greinke is 8-2 with a big league-best 1.39 ERA and enters the game at Great American Ball Park following five straight scoreless starts over 35 2-3 innings.
"These numbers he's putting up are really, really unbelievable," NL manager Bruce Bochy said Monday.
Greinke's wife Emily was so excited she will be at the game even though she is about three weeks from giving birth.
"She found a way to get out here even though she probably shouldn't have," he said.
The 27-year-old Keuchel, with a distinctive long, bushy beard, is 11-4 with a 2.23 ERA. Keuchel said he told his family in advance but was cautioned not to inform the others.
Still, he worried that word might leak out.
"Even my family has loose lips," he said.
The AL will open the game with an all right-handed-hitting lineup for the first time. The only previous team to open with all righty batters was the NL for the first of two games in 1962.
Here are the full lineup's for Tuesday's mid-summer classic:
American League
1. Mike Trout, CF (Angels)
2. Josh Donaldson, 3B (Blue Jays)
3. Albert Pujols, 1B (Angels)
4. Nelson Cruz, DH (Mariners)
5. Lorenzo Cain, RF (Royals)
6. Adam Jones, LF (Orioles)
7. Salvador Perez, C (Royals)
8. Jose Altuve, 2B (Astros)
9. Alcides Escobar, SS (Royals)
-- Dallas Keuchel, SP (Astros)
National League
1. Andrew McCutchen, CF (Pirates)
2. Todd Frazier, 3B (Reds)
3. Bryce Harper, RF (Nationals)
4. Paul Goldschmidt, 1B (Diamondbacks)
5. Buster Posey, C (Giants)
6. Anthony Rizzo, DH (Cubs)
7. Jhonny Peralta, SS (Cardinals)
8. Joc Pederson, LF (Dodgers)
9. DJ Lemahieu, 2B (Rockies)
-- Zack Greinke, SP (Dodgers)
Five fan-elected starters are missing the game because of injuries: Detroit first baseman Miguel Cabrera, Royals left fielder Alex Gordon, Miami second baseman Dee Gordon and right fielder Giancarlo Stanton and St. Louis left fielder Matt Holliday.
This is the first time the AL starting lineup did not have at least one player from Boston or the New York Yankees. Utility man Brock Holt will represent Boston as an AL reserve, while first baseman Mark Teixeira, outfielder Brett Gardner and reliever Dellin Betances made the team for the Yankees.
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