Breaking ball and a call. Strike three. Third strikeout for Zach. He's going to just watch it go. A grand slam for Bryson Stott.

And there's a high fly ball. Deep right field. Huffer watches it fly.

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Finally, the Phillies have an all-star game MVP breaking a six-decade trail.

Kyle Schwerber with the long balls in the swing

off. We're going to talk about that exciting night of baseball, the midsummer classic, one of the

best I've ever seen. I'll get into my second half Phillies predictions. I've got 10 predictions

for the Phillies second half. We'll talk about the Phillies draft just a little bit. That's all coming up here on this edition of hit and season. All right, let's jump right into things here. And what an all-star game we saw. I mean, sometimes these all-star games aren't the most exciting in the world. They're low-scoring games. A lot of great pitching in these all-star games, and sometimes they can be just a little bit dry. I still think baseball has clearly the best all-star game of any professional sport. It's light years better and way more competitive than football. I mean, football, they don't even play the game anymore. They flag football now. Basketball, nobody cares. Hockey a little bit more so, but it's still just nobody wants to touch each other.

So it's a cheap facsimile of what we see during the regular season. But in baseball,

there's really no faking it. There's no way to get a pitcher who normally throws 97, 98 miles

an hour to suddenly just start throwing 85. That's not how baseball works.

And we saw that at the midsummer classic with pitchers ramping things up there, 100 plus

miles an hour and a terrific baseball game as the American League overcame a six-nothing

deficit in the seventh inning with four runs in the seventh and then two in the ninth to

tie it off of Edwin Diaz of the Mets,

which triggered one of the weirdest things we've ever seen in baseball history and something

that I think we're all going to hope happens at the end of every all-star game moving forward.

The home run derby swing off, Kyle Schwerber hitting three home runs in his three swings,

overcoming a three-to-one deficit in the

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