The Twins had multiple players in the All-Star Game for the first time since 2019:
Byron Buxton
• First All-Star Game at age 28. Started in center field between the Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton in left and Aaron Judge in right. Batted sixth in the order.
• First Twins outfielder to start the All-Star Game since 2002. Fourth Twin to start in center field, joining Tony Oliva (1967), Kirby Puckett (1986, 1989) and Torii Hunter (2002).
• Went 1-for-2 at the plate. Struck out swinging on four pitches against Miami's Sandy Alcantara in the second inning and followed up Stanton's home run in the fourth with a blast of his own on a 2-1 pitch from the Dodgers' Tony Gonsolin. Buxton, decked out in neon green shoes, pumped his arm as he's known to do as he rounded the bases. The 425-foot blast landed in the left-field seats and put the AL ahead 3-2. Buxton became the fourth Twin to homer in an All-Star Game and the first since Brian Dozier in 2015. In a postgame interview with Fox's Tom Verducci, Buxton said he told himself before his second at-bat: "I can't strike out twice."
Luis Arraez
• First All-Star Game at age 25. MLB's batting leader (.338) — also the AL leader in on-base percentage (.411) — made the team as a reserve infielder. The last Twins infielder to make the All-Star Game was Jorge Polanco (starting SS in 2019).
• Entered the game in the bottom of the fourth inning, replacing starting first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Recorded the first out of the inning, catching a foul pop off the bat of the Dodgers' Trea Turner. He later moved to third base.
