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This year's MLB All-Star Game will be held at Dodgers' stadium in Los Angeles California on July 19th and the starting pitchers will be locals Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw, both will share the mount and will give their all to win the game for their league.
Kershaw does not take it for granted
Kershaw commented that "I think it's been a couple of years since I got to compete in an All-Star Game, and something about Dodger Stadium, too, is special, I don't take that for granted. Like I said before, I hope I didn't take anybody's spot that was more deserving than me, but now that it's official and I get to do it, I am very excited about it."
Fan-picked to be DH
A year after he became the first two-way All-Star, Ohtani was selected to lead the American League pitching staff as a Major League Baseball this comes only two days after he was named by fans to start at designated hitter.
"I'm going to try to take it all in as best I can," said the three-time Cy Young winner. "As the years go by, you start to appreciate things a bit more, so every time I get to pitch at Dodger Stadium, every time we get a win, every time something significant happens, I try to take it in a little bit more now."
More pitchers to come
Clay Holmes, Gerrit Cole, and Nestor Cortes will be ing Ohtani in the American League All Star team from the Yankees while catcher Jose Trevino, will top the list of the Bronx to make it the first time that six players from the Yankees the team since 2011.
The Mets, Cardinals & Blue Jays also have four All-Stars
Ohtani is this year's reigning AL MVP while hitting .260 with 19 home runs and 59 RBIs and is 8-4 with a 2.44 ERA, 111 strikeou,ts and 20 walks in 81 innings.