to host the All-Star Game for the first time since 1980. Major League Baseball has already said that Los Angeles will now host the Midsummer Classic in 2022, which was the next available slot.
Next year's game was already scheduled for the Atlanta Braves' Truist Park that opened in 2017. Earl Weaver and Chuck Tanner were the managers in the 1980 game at Dodger Stadium that the National League won 4-2, when Ken Griffey Sr.
homered and was the game's MVP. The American League has won the last seven All-Star Games, and 19 of the last 23. There was a tie in 2002, and the NL won three in a row from 2010-12.
At least the All-Star Game no longer determines home field advantage for the World Series, like it did from 2003-16, so the absence of the.