The American League started the 86th All-Star Game with a home run and ended with home-field advantage for the World Series — for the third year in a row. The final score at Cincinnati's Great American Ball Park Tuesday night: 6-3.
AL's Mike Trout started the game with a bang, hitting a home run in the first at-bat.
"It was the fourth homer to lead off an All-Star Game in the event's history and the first since Joe Morgan in 1977," MLB.com reports .
Trout also became the first player to win consecutive MVP awards, ESPN reports .
He'll probably have a lot of chances to win another one. The Associated Press notes that he's part of a leaguewide youth movement:
"A season after the retirement of Derek Jeter dropped the curtain on the turn-of-century greats, the 23-year-old Trout was among six starting position players under 25 — the most since 1965."
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