With All-Star win, AL can pull into all-time tie with NL

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Miami Marlins’ Justin Bour reacts as he competes during the MLB baseball All-Star Home Run Derby. | Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press

MIAMI — The American League can pull even in Tuesday’s All-Star Game.

If the AL wins the game at Marlins Park, it would be the fifth straight time it has topped the National League in the Midsummer Classic.

A win also would knot the all-time series: Going into Tuesday, the NL leads the series 43-42, with two ties.

The all-time All-Star series has been even only once before. The AL won the first three meetings, and it took until 1964 before the NL caught up — the teams were then 17-17-1 against one another.

That was during an eight-year run of NL wins, from 1963 through 1970.

Over the last two decades, though, the AL has had a mighty upper hand, going 16-3-1 in the last 20 games entering Tuesday.

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