​The American League entered this night as winners of 11 of the last 13 All-Star Games, the exceptions being a National League win in 2023 in Seattle and last year’s swing-off in Atlanta, with Kyle Schwarber the swing-off hero and MVP of the game.That continued Tuesday evening as the AL thoroughly dominated the NL in a 4-0 win at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. It’s the first All-Star shutout since 2013, when the AL defeated the NL 3-0 at Citi Field.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPlayuer introductions included each player in the starting lineup going to sign a lineup card set to look like the Declaration of Independence. Did you like that? [VIDEO]After that, American League hitters took it out on Cristopher Sánchez of the Phillies, one of the better pitchers im MLB this year, who had a 50.2 inning scoreless streak earlier in the year. Not on this night — he allowed three hits and a pair of walks, leading to a three-run American League first inning. In 20 starts during the regular season, know how many times Sánchez walked at least two? Six times, and he threw at least 5.1 innings in each of those six. Somehow, in front of his home fans, he fell apart with a 34-pitch outing.Two of those AL runs were driven in on a single by former Cub Cody Bellinger [VIDEO].The other AL run in the first was driven in by Ben Rice of the Yankees, leading to this fun fact:After that the game kind of screeched to a halt for a while. The NL didn’t have a hit until Juan Soto of the Mets singled leading off the fourth. But the AL stars couldn’t score again either, and had just two other hits through the top of the fifth.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThere was a scary moment in the third, when Junior Caminero of the Rays was hit, apparently on the hand, by Cardinals closer Riley O’Brien [VIDEO].Caminero didn’t even go to first base before being replaced by Miguel Vargas of the White Sox, instead going to the clubhouse for treatment. The good news is that he’s okay:Here’s a play worth watching: Ernie Clement of the Blue Jays retiring Andy Pages of the Dodgers with this great throw to end the fifth [VIDEO].Nice pick there by former Cub Willson Contreras, too.The only Cubs representative, Pete Crow-Armstrong, entered the game as a defensive replacement in the top of the sixth. In the eighth they mic’d him up and what did he talk about? The Chicago Bears!While that PCA conversation was going on, the AL finally broke the scoring drought when Vargas sent this home run into the second deck in left field [VIDEO].AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPCA got the NL’s second hit of the night with one out in the eighth, a single to center, but he was stranded.The NL wound up with a third hit, by Otto Lopez in with two out in the ninth, avoiding becoming the second team to get only two hits in an All-Star game. That was the NL at Wrigley Field in 1990. Next year, of course, the All-Star festivities will return to Wrigley — presuming the