1998 All-Star Game: AL defeats NL, 13-8

7/7/98: All-Star MVP Roberto Alomar leads the AL's offensive onslaught in their 13-8 defeat of the National League
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[@ItsGrawVez]

God is good, all the time!

[@J_D_TheSportsG]

"Talk about Hall of Fame matchups. Clemens is a lock. So is Gwynn, who singled off him. So is McGwire, who struck out. And now Bonds, who is headed for Cooperstown as well." That's a quote from Bob Costas! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheExorcist-uj7qf]

RIP Tony Gwynn, one of the greatest. 1960-2014

[@NicanTlacaWarrior1]

Best hitter I ever saw, next to Ichiro

[@one7deep7savage7]

@@NicanTlacaWarrior1 and Edgar

[@lewis9702]

Not to mention he was a great human being

[@lewis9702]

@M Nobody gives a f**k about kickball

[@bigboy3664]

@M lol. Who asked. Let me give you a hint No one

[@PingHorror]

Joe Morgan seriously showcased why he was and will forever be the greatest 2nd fiddle in the booth. The man was smooth with everything he said.

[@brandonjones9998]

One of the best ASG's ever. So many legends and hall of famers. My childhood man. Damn I'm old lol.

[@philsmith8306]

Kenny Lofton was my absolute favorite player because he was such a naturally smooth athlete. As a left-handed leadoff hitter that played CF myself, Kenny Lofton hung the moon for me as a kid. So I hung his poster on my wall lol. I remember my mother bought me his signature cletes for my baseball season as a youth.

[@eljefe114]

Now this is an all star game. I feel bad for people that didn’t watch baseball in the 90s

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

I was born in 2004...

[@craigschuer7451]

1:12:33 "Talk about hall of fame matchups." referring to Bonds, Clemonds and McGwire. That statement didn't age well...

[@tomglavinehof1]

I think they get in eventually...bonds and Clemens both were already hall of famers early on in their careers winning multiple mvps and cy young’s and mcgwire saved the game back in 1998 when many fans still had a bad taste in their mouths from the 1994 strike.

[@craigschuer7451]

@@tomglavinehof1 Completely agree they should be in, but the fact that they're not yet; makes the statement funny in hindsight.

[@mikelikesbama]

This comment won't age well

[@AlanBik3]

RIP DON BAYLOR :(

[@one7deep7savage7]

My entire Childhood in 3 1/2 hrs

[@billny33]

I dunno about you guys but I will always remember this All Star Game for the play that Paul O'Neill made from left field at 3:01:04. Maybe that's just the Yankee fan in me. I never hear anybody talk about it though so I had to watch this just to make sure that really happened, that he really did gun down Fernando Vina at home plate in an All Star game with a perfect throw in a clutch late-inning situation. Sure did. That's the play of the game for me.

[@jimwinchester339]

That damb plane sure made a racket!

[@dennismignone9535]

I was there....worked as a P.A. for NBC..... was in my mid 20's in the dugout, tunnels, etc.... all my baseball cards coming to life!!!

[@e.a.r.9155]

The Greatest players Ever in the Greatest era of baseball Ever..!

[@23Incubus23]

1:12:33 Costas saying Clemens and Bonds are sure-fire HoFers. No one would have thought that getting there would be so difficult for both of them.

[@paulcataldo5222]

jeter HOF was easy and mariano rivera

[@Justin-hv7eu]

Yea, steroid use doesn’t look too great when you’re trying to get into Cooperstown.

[@raydiabolico]

Hands down the greatsst MLB season of all times. My childhood.

[@mleiblie0513]

Was it because of the McGwire Sosa thing or Pedro dominating everything or just the whole thing?

[@Coqui-Cariduro]

@@mleiblie0513 Braves choking. Yankees winning. Good stories all around.

[@THE-NC2]

@@Coqui-Cariduro Funny thing is that Braves are winning and Yankees are going to choke

[@Angel-nl1cr]

@@mleiblie0513 it was everything about that season so many legends playing at the same time. Great hitters and great pitchers dominating. The sosa and McGuire and Griffey home run chase (plp forget about Griffey) the 40/40 chase by AROD. The Yankees chasing the all time single season win record. So many hitters hitting bombs. Pedro dominating. Juan González chasing the single season RBI record. Def hands down the best season in MLB history

[@wadepreston5781]

One of the last seasons I followed religiously before college. There was the home run chase, the dominant Yankees team. San Diego facing three 100+ win teams in the playoffs. Two brand new teams entering the league. One team switching leagues and interleague play was still fairly new.

[@Lefty16jd]

Juan Gonzalez having 101 RBIs at the All-Star break is insane. These guys were such studs! Different era!

[@westhoodqualzini7884]

Yeah because you see back then they didn’t bat their power hitters in lead off like they do today. That and they also hit with runners in scoring position. Something unheard of today

[@rafaelsale6364]

This is when the steroids era really took off. You won't see numbers that inflated in the game today.

[@califinn]

I remember this Bonds home run. Was the sole Giants fan on my summer Legion team, we were mostly graduating seniors and had a great high school season. We all got together and watched, and I was shouting and hollering when Bonds hit it. ha ha, good times

[@nateboy1489]

That NL starting lineup was absolutely stacked. Incredible. Makes me feel old.

[@Stretch213]

I cried

[@skippythealien9627]

and they still fuckign lost lmao. Seriously in my lifetime, I think i've only seen the NL win the All-Star game once haha. They always found ways to blow it

[@noahbise8452]

greatest all star game of all time IMO

[@one7deep7savage7]

It was good but naw...2001 Allstar Game at Safeco was by far the best

[@rushrush1209]

You must like slugfests as this was the highest scoring MLB All Star Game ever. Denver has that affect.

[@clipz_783]

@@one7deep7savage7 he said IMO witch stans for in my opinion

[@mikelikesbama]

91 is up there for me with this one. Fun seeing the "stadium of the future" some studs and a bonus interview with DiMaggio and Williams

[@PokemonTrainerVince]

2008 all-star game says hello.

[@pinheadpatrick1550]

Modern day all star games are nothing compared to the 90's all star games.

[@dantegood2195]

Pinhead Patrick Shut up. All these players were roided out

[@DaBronx_Bomber]

@@dantegood2195 Who you calling Pinhead???

[@hypn0298]

Pinhead Patrick blinded by nostalgia...

[@christiancharles309]

Steroids destroyed baseball.

[@JP-wx6uh]

Robbie Alomar, best overall 2nd baseman in history.

[@swingandadrive4857]

Tf

[@helooo28]

Bartolo Colon...

[@flame-sky7148]

Bonds hit the Giants sign in the upper deck!

[@promeitheus]

There's like 3,000 HR in that AL starting lineup

[@travisedwards3543]

Anyone else think greg maddux looks like matthew Broderick?

[@user-pp2fj1xf2l]

The GOLD ERA of Baseball and MLB

[@jacobrichardson1952]

I love being an old soul watchin 90s baseball.

[@whywelovefilm7079]

Juan Gonzalez had 101 RBI’s at the All-Star break?!

[@zitofan4life]

Comment by costas about marlins at 49:37 was savage 😂

[@otonielenrriquecano]

Que clase de juego puras estrellas que orden ,disciplina y amor por el juego eso ya no se mira ahora solo desorden y irrespeto por el juego .

[@rushrush1209]

Look at how many former Marlins from the 1997 championship team were in the game on other teams.. Firesale.

[@familyguyblows]

Wow..... And there was so many other greats that weren’t in the all-star game.

[@ER-bd7uo]

Love those uniforms ! Want the Expos back !!

[@lazywallstreetnews7234]

I love how at 2:32 Manny Ramirez and Bartolo Colón make fun of Sammy Sosa's peace signs.

[@youngsosatm3928]

Those fitteds are krazy man😭🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jtstevenson81]

32:26 Even in an exhibition game, Maddux would get mad at himself if he missed his spot.

[@jimsox881]

cannot watch this due to helicopter or whatever it is whirring in the background.

[@nathanadkins9374]

jim crabtrey the hood blimp

[@heyeye81]

Gwynn,Big Mac, bonds?!! What a 2/3/4. Both lineups were stacked.

[@RyansColoradoRailProductions]

I was at the next All Star Game there, in 2021. They dont do these kinds of pregame displays on the field anymore. That was also the first one that I was alive for.

[@flames24lightning]

This was the last time we heard the Brisco County Jr theme on a baseball broadcast. NBC debuted a new melancholy sounding brass based theme for the 1998 postseason

[@mortimerzilch2608]

those single engine airplanes buzzing the field are a real annoyance.

[@one7deep7savage7]

When the Astros were still.in the NL

[@nicobearo7217]

The best thing is it was the 69th all star game.

[@Duke_of_Cali]

Love those old school marlins unis and colors

[@Batman1989King]

1:12:29 First matchup between Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens

[@TropTop24]

“Tampa Devil Rays” “Orlando Arrojo” They’ve always been disrespected. LOL

[@rorogonzo7867]

Anthony Suriano 😂

[@philhahn14u]

Do you have to put the score in the title line?

[@thickerconstrictor9037]

Okay so not that anyone cares haha, but I Saw The sandlot sometime in third grade. Which would have been 96-97 around there. and even though I lived in Florida, because of The sandlot I decided that the dodgers would be my team. But I didn't have a favorite player.so sometime during this game I turned on the channel and started watching. And I see that the dodgers have a player named GarySheffield. So I decided since he was an All-Star that that would be a good choice for my favorite player. And I ended up getting hundreds of his cards, despite not getting anything after the dodgers baseball cards.I got three jerseys, multiple autographs although I never met him, and he ended up retiring on my birthday. I was expecting to maybe have five or six years to watch him before he retired but I ended up getting 11. ever since he retired I haven't cared as much about baseball as I did back then. As a kid you have a favorite player and someone that you love but as an adult is harder to have that passion because you're not looking up to anyone anymore like that. So I still enjoy watching baseball but I will never love it as much as I did back then. And if it wasn't for this All-Star game I probably would have never started following Sheffield and I got to see so many great moments with him and I would give anything to go back and just be a kid again watching baseball and watching Sheffield play. We have a lot of good players in today's baseball. Mike trout, Bryce Harper whether you like him or not, Clayton Kershaw, so on so forth but McGuire bonds Sosa Griffey boggs Manny Tony gwynn, Cal ripken Jr, Jeter, arod, Piazza, Greg maddux, Tom glavine, Rodger Clemens, Mariano Rivera, chipper, Bagwell, Randy Johnson, shilling, Vlad, etc. steroids are not there were some amazing okayers. not to mention that steroids literally saved baseball. Baseball was never as entertaining as it was during the steroid era. That 98 home run race literally saved baseball. I will always miss these days. Thanks for the upload

[@rockygamerblogs5253]

Holy sh... all name of both team. All are huge star...

[@vdubproductions2646]

Surprised ESPN allowed Joe Morgan to broadcast this game for NBC as he was with ESPN.

[@paulsonj72]

He worked for both ESPN and NBC from 1996-2000 when NBC had all star games and the post season.

[@JammastaJ23]

Sooo many hall of famers...

[@cooasfukyee4200]

+JammastaJ23 so many future roiders....

[@christiancharles5598]

So many cheaters

[@cooasfukyee4200]

damn i miss joe morgan calling baseball games

[@KTF0]

This was Jeff Shaw's first game in a Dodgers uniform. He was traded right before the All Star Break.

[@23Incubus23]

112:32 Costas mentioning sure fire HoF matchups. Clemens, Bonds, McGwire, Gwynn. Only 1 is in the HoF.

[@tthomaselli2]

2:29:40-2:29:46.; Why did Bob Costas say that & what did he mean by that?...

[@Dre973Andre]

The Nl starting lineup was stacked

[@timothytoscano1445]

98 Yankees best ever

[@therealityishard9339]

What q reaaaaaallyyyy superstars game my god ,RAFAEL PALMEIRO 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺

[@Terp311]

2:30 He looks so young!

[@jeffreywilliams6386]

Anyone know what Ripken said that MLB cut-out at 2:38:38? (Olbermann's dugout interview with him begins 2:37:37.)

[@Terp311]

Yes I do.

[@jeffreywilliams6386]

@@Terp311 What then?

[@labandoladelrecuerdo]

90% HALL OF FAME

[@AP-li5wx]

2:02:24 Bartolo Colon brought me here because he said in an interview that Barry Bonds in this AB, between all the 28th teams, hit with the ball his team (SF) logo label. Wow.

[@kevinmorrison9569]

1:12:29 Bob Costas talking about Bonds, Clemens and Mcgwire being locks for the hall of fame.

MLB Upload the 2003 All-Star Game

[@brandonhoun]

The greatest decade in baseball.

[@ericsmith8254]

Glory years of my youth

[@todds.6028]

Ha. Little Bartolo Colon

[@Nickrj3]

I don't know how Kerry Wood didn't make the team. How could Jim Leyland ignore his strikeout totals?

[@ericevans7741]

the 69th all star game, nice

[@goldleader4500]

The 90's were so better.

[@gerryomo9515]

Instead of saying Rolando, he said Orlando

[@sabster74]

This PA announcer is too good for baseball. He should be in the NBA or NHL.

[@Wolverine607]

Awesome upload. NBC Sports was so good in the 90s. Miss the Edelman NFL and MLB themes. I think this may have been the last time they used the Edelman Adventures of Brisco County Jr. theme for baseball coverage unless they used it for 98 playoffs as well. I know in 1999 and 2000, they had a different theme which was still pretty good, but not as good as this one.

[@Sherpaful]

+Wolverine607 /watch?v=3gaAtTKZc7M for a nice loop of the Brisco theme

[@TheLocalLt]

Wolverine607 they didn't use it for the '98 playoffs they used a different theme entirely that was similar to the 1999-2000 theme

[@Wolverine607]

@@TheLocalLt I heard the 1998 MLB post season theme NBC used and it sounds nothing like the Brisco County Jr,. theme nor the 1999-2000 theme.

[@TheLocalLt]

Wolverine607 it’s more similar to the 1999 theme than the Brisco county theme. As in it’s a normal sports theme and not a tv show theme

[@Wolverine607]

@@TheLocalLt Well it just so happened to be commissioned for a TV show after it was somehow not made for CBS olympic coverage and they used Yani instead I believe. The Edelman NFL on NBC was a sports theme and it was never used for a TV show at all.

[@rushdi34]

wow both of those lineups were so stacked lol

[@fernandocortes1448]

That's the Greatest All Star Game ever!!!

[@jymsport212]

Feel like im watching an mlb the show game online !

[@RubberClits]

Costas was roasting Juan Gone.

[@amanchabra8947]

2:02:30 - No steroids in his system yet, but still raking with unmistakable power! Bonds was a HoF player before the roids! Meanwhile, those roided up jokers, McGwire and Sosa were getting all the love! SMH!

[@doofus9575]

How do you know that? All we know is whatever he was doing post 1999 was greater than what he had been doing before. Regardless of any alleged convo w Griffey, a player willing to dope to that extreme afterwards certainly shouldn't be assumed to have been natural the whole time before.

[@Jacobthekid28]

@@doofus9575 So even though Bonds was already a first ballot Hall of Famer before steroids, his production from 1986-1998 shouldn't be seen as natural?

[@doofus9575]

I guess I mainly disagree with your premise that we know for a fact when he started taking any steroids. He could certainly have been doing something like andro or HGH in the 90s, and being a top five hitter in a league full of PEDs then (as well as being willing to go hard on steroids later) is in itself perhaps suspicious, or he could have been entirely clean. The point is we don't know, and to declare that there was a "before steroids" point with Bonds is an assumption. We just know that he was definitely on serious drugs at and after the turn of the century, and that it was a lot more than whatever he was doing before. That's all we know.

[@Jacobthekid28]

@@doofus9575 That's fair to say that we dont exactly know when he started to juice however there is so much compelling evidence. First off, he got his new trainer who was believed to have supplied him with steroids after the 1998 season. Second off, Bonds most likely also starting taking them out of jealousy of Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire who of course stole the spotlight in 1998 because of the Homerun chase. Not only this but if you look at him in 1998 vs 2000 it is clear as day when he started, in 1999.

[@doofus9575]

@@Jacobthekid28 Well it's certainly clear that after 1998 he started taking a lot more than whatever he was taking previously. It's not clear that what he was taking previously was nothing. Your last two points (about his physique changing and about the home run chase) are indisputable but I don't think all that relevant; they just demonstrate his change, but they don't demonstrate that his starting point was natural. I'm putting you in a tough spot because it's certainly impossible to prove a negative, especially looking back in history, but I think a very large number of power hitters were on andro and growth hormones in the 90s and Barry surely could have been one of them. I just don't like the certainty with which his modern defenders claim that he was natural beforehand

[@Manolin23]

Faith Hill killing it on that Star Spangled Banner! Great rendition. One of the best I can remember.

[@zitofan4life]

Fergie Ferg love ya love ya long time

[@tacogang5083]

I wore Kenny Lofton cleats in high school 🔥🔥🔥

[@WP_Hero]

So much juice!

[@ChairmanMeow1]

Maddux 12-2 1.54 ERA coming into the game... lmao

[@landenauld1106]

Bro the NL is stacked how tf did the AL win😭

[@steveschmidt3961]

lol hearing bob talk about a rod and jeter being best of friends makes me laugh lol

[@MsIsaac22]

That NL All-Star team was almost like the Marlins fire sale team with Alou, Sheffield, Brown, Nen in different unfiroms alongside Renteria

[@SmoothCriminal12]

Don't forget Piazza and his brief time in Florida.

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Don't forget Ivan Rodriguez for the 2003 team

[@Amersian]

nothing beats Colorado baseball.

[@garnetradford6980]

3/4 of the 2020 Jays infield dads represented. Just missing Vlad Sr. (First AS appearance in 99)

[@zitofan4life]

Nice catch

[@SylveonMujigaeOfficial]

The 2021 All Star Game will be at this very place following controversy in Atlanta.

[@Ghostrider6A]

Same dimensions, but the wall in right is higher now than 1998.

[@sklzlm]

Omg, awesome! Biggio first up followed by Tony Gwynn? Then frickin Barry Bonds cleaning up. Would've loved to be here but i was in the 9th grade when this was happened...

[@JBatts41]

that stupid airplane for almost 4 innings just flying around the field........ annoying

[@imreptar7038]

That fucking plane is annoying. Glad that don't happen anymore

[@anthonymarks1848]

The beast juan igor Gonzalez

[@calebwhitetheawoken]

I am getting old I was born in 1976

[@randysatin1866]

Love it

[@kevosuss4537]

Walt Weiss was the starting shortstop for the NL. Were all the other shortstops dead ?

[@billny33]

Nope, they were all in the AL. Jeter, A-Rod, Nomar.

[@KTF0]

@@billny33 Vizquel, too

[@bumpyearth4204]

He was a Rocky

[@benrifkin1981]

Gary Sheffield getting booed, that’s lame

[@AROD617]

bartelo colon legend already

[@tthomaselli2]

1:33:06-1:34:47.; In terms of sports interviews go, I miss interviews like this one with Sammy Sosa, for example as far as the over-all presentation, style, flow & feel. No B.S., no dancing around, no nothing.; Just cutting right to the chase & getting it over with, already.

[@jumbledupwithcake4819]

Lol shoutout to young Bartolo