Major League Baseball All-Star Games in Pittsburgh

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The Pittsburgh Pirates have hosted the Major League Baseball All-Star Game a record tying total of five times. No other major league franchise has hosted the game more, and only the Cleveland Indians have hosted it as many as five times.

[edit] Game summaries

[edit] 1944

• The first game occurred on July 11, 1944, at Forbes Field. The National League won the competition 7-1, with 12 hits to the American League's 6 hits.

[edit] 1959

Main article: 1959 Major League Baseball All-Star Games

• The second time the All-Star Game visited Pittsburgh was on July 7, 1959. The National League again took the game 5-4, getting 9 hits to the American League's 8 hits.

[edit] 1974

• The third All-Star Game in Pittsburgh was on July 23, 1974 at the four year old Three Rivers Stadium. The National League again took the contest 7-2, with 10 hits against an American League effort of just 4. Ken Brett, the only Pirate on the National League team, was the winning pitcher.

[edit] 1994

Main article: 1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

• It was July 12, 1994, when the All-Star Game visited Pittsburgh for the fourth time, again at Three Rivers. It was a tight contest, with the A.L. leading by two runs going into the bottom of the 9th. The N.L. posted two runs that inning to tie the score and force extra innings. The N.L. won the game 8-7 in the bottom of the 10th inning.

[edit] 2006

Main article: 2006 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

• In 2006, Pittsburgh hosted the All-Star Game for the fifth time, and the first at PNC Park. The National League saw its winless streak extend to ten straight years with a 3-2 loss to the American League.
  • Among the pre-game highlights was the performance of O, Canada; the Pittsburgh crowd, "want(ing) to show they knew the words from being an NHL city," sang along.^[1] FOX, which aired the game in the USA, cut to commercial during the Canadian national anthem.^[2] Major League Baseball later posted a video of the performance on their website.[1]

[edit] Stadiums

As the Pirates hosted the 1944 and 1959 games at Forbes Field and the 1974 and 1994 games in Three Rivers Stadium, Pittsburgh is the first team that has not moved to have hosted the game in three different stadiums.

Only New York, with the Dodgers, Giants, Mets and Yankees hosted the event in four different stadiums: (Ebbets Field, Polo Grounds, Shea Stadium and Yankee Stadium). The Giants will have hosted it in three different parks (but in two different cities) come 2007, when they host the annual classic at AT&T Park, joining the aforementioned Polo Grounds and Candlestick Park as previous hosts. The Dodgers between Brooklyn and Los Angeles have hosted the game not only at Ebbets Field, but also the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Dodger Stadium; and the Baltimore Orioles along with their predecessors, the St. Louis Browns, hosted the game at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, Memorial Stadium, and Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore; and the Braves have hosted at Braves Field (in Boston), Milwaukee County Stadium, Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, and Turner Field.

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