Players pushed for end to All-Star/World Series link
OXON HILL, Md. — Having been pitched in five All-Star Games — losing the 2015 contest in Cincinnati — Clayton Kershaw wants them to have no part in determining World Series home-field advantage.
“It’s an exhibition, so it shouldn’t count,” the Los Angeles Dodgers ace said Monday at the winter meetings. “The focus should be about being elected to the All-Star Game as opposed to trying to win a game, for sure.”
The American League won 11 of 14 All-Star Games played under the rule that gave home-field advantage to the World Series winner, and the AL representative won eight World Series in those years.