{"id":76116,"date":"2026-07-15T00:54:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/american-league-pitchers-combine-for-first-all-star-game-shutout-since-2013\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:54:44","slug":"american-league-pitchers-combine-for-first-all-star-game-shutout-since-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/american-league-pitchers-combine-for-first-all-star-game-shutout-since-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"American League pitchers combine for first All-Star Game shutout since 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Cease and bullpen combine for three-hitter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Bellinger named MVP after two-run single<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>AL record first All-Star shutout since 2013<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dylan Cease struck out the side in the first inning, combining with 10 relievers on a three-hitter in a show of pitching dominance that led the American League to a 4-0 win over the National League in Tuesday night\u2019s All-Star Game.<\/p>\n<p>All-Star MVP Cody Bellinger hit a two-run single and Ben Rice followed with an RBI single in the first against Cristopher S\u00e1nchez of the host Philadelphia Phillies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/15\/american-league-national-league-2026-all-star-game\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cease and bullpen combine for three-hitter Bellinger named MVP after two-run single AL record first All-Star shutout since 2013 Dylan Cease struck out the side in the first inning, combining with 10 relievers on a three-hitter in a show of pitching dominance that led the American League to a 4-0 win over the National League &#8230; <a title=\"American League pitchers combine for first All-Star Game shutout since 2013\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/15\/american-league-pitchers-combine-for-first-all-star-game-shutout-since-2013\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about American League pitchers combine for first All-Star Game shutout since 2013\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}