Dont look now, but the MLB All-Star Break -- otherwise known as that annoying period without box scores -- is almost upon us. The annual Home Run Derby will take place Monday, July 11, at Petco Park in San Diego, followed one night later by the All-Star Game.By now, youve probably seen the Home Run Derby caps and jerseys, which are patterned after the Padres old Taco Bell uniform design, and the All-Star Game caps. This years festivities will also feature new All-Star and Derby socks, though its unclear whether well see much of them, as players wont be required to wear their pants high-cuffed. Will there be any other uni-related surprises? Quite possibly because MLBs All-Star history is replete with uni-notable moments, many of which are shown in this selected timeline:1933: The very first All-Star Game finds the two leagues taking different approaches to their uniforms. National Leaguers wear special uniforms for the occasion (which will turn out to be a one-year anomaly), while their American League counterparts wear regular team uniforms.1934: All players wear regular team uniforms, but American Leaguers wear new uni numbers pinned over their normal numbers.1964: With the All-Star Game taking place at the Mets new home, Shea Stadium, Johnny Callison of the Phillies wins the game with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth -- while wearing a Mets batting helmet. This is the earliest documented case of what will develop into a frequent All-Star Game trope: when players forget or misplace their helmets and end up using someone elses.1965: Giants outfielder Willie Mays forgets to bring his batting helmet to the All-Star Game, so he borrows Billy Williams Cubs helmet, then switches to Johnny Edwards Reds helmet (further info here). In addition, Mays teammate Juan Marichal wears a Milwaukee Braves helmet. It is later reported that Mays and Marichal almost didnt get their uniforms in time for the game and might have had to wear inside-out Twins uniforms instead! 1972: Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk makes his All-Star debut -- while wearing a Brewers helmet.1973: Dodgers outfielder Willie Davis hits a pinch-hit home run while wearing a Braves helmet.1974: Its customary for the previous seasons two pennant-winning managers to skipper their respective leagues All-Star squads. But Dick Williams, who guided the As to the 1973 championship, is no longer managing in Oakland. He has moved on to manage the Angels, so he becomes the first manager to win a pennant in one teams uniform and then skipper the following years All-Star Game in another teams uniform. Dusty Baker will pull the same trick in 2003, when he wears his Cubs uniform to manage the National League All-Stars after winning the NL pennant with the Giants the year before.1975: The As have eight representatives at the All-Star Game (seven players plus manager Alvin Dark), and they dress in almost that many uniform combinations.1976: With many National League teams celebrating the leagues centennial season by wearing pillbox caps, NL All-Stars wear pillbox caps for batting practice and pregame warm-ups. They wear their regular team caps for the game itself. 1977: Pirates slugger Dave Parker wears two mismatched helmets in the same game. First, he dons a Padres helmet for an early at-bat, then he switches to a Reds helmet later in the game. Not to be outdone, Mariners outfielder Rupert Jones bats while wearing a Blue Jays helmet, which gives him a dual distinction: He becomes the first Mariner to appear in an All-Star Game?and?the first player to wear a Jays uniform component in an All-Star Game. 1979: Yankees outfielder Reggie Jacksons uniform doesnt arrive in time for the American Leagues team portrait. The game is being held in Seattle, so Jackson dons a Mariners uniform. Fortunately, his Yankees uni arrives in time for the game. Meanwhile, Phillies first baseman Pete Rose plays the game in his maroon batting practice jersey. With BP jerseys still a fairly new and uncommon phenomenon at the time, Roses move draws a lot of fan interest, which results in many teams introducing their own solid-colored BP jerseys and alternate game jerseys over the next few seasons. 1980: Reds outfielder Ken Griffey is named the games MVP and is awarded a Stargell Star from National League teammate Willie Stargell.1981: Two more helmet mix-ups, as Royals infielder Frank White pinch runs in a Brewers helmet and Blue Jays pitcher Dave Stieb (who, as an American League pitcher, never expected to hit) steps up to the plate in a Mariners helmet.1982: The American Leagues starting pitcher, Dennis Eckersley of the Red Sox (still several years from redefining the game as an elite closer), comes to bat in an Indians helmet. Tigers catcher Lance Parrish later does the same.1984: With Royals third baseman George Bretts helmet missing, Brett uses American League teammate Alvin Davis Mariners helmet with the Seattle logo peeled off -- but with Davis telltale 21 still on the brim.1985: You cant make this up: With the All-Star Game about to start in Minnesota, Tigers infielder Lou Whitakers uniform is missing, so he buys a replica Tigers jersey from a Metrodome gift shop and has his uniform number added in Magic Marker. Meanwhile, theres yet another helmet switcheroo, as Astros pitcher Nolan Ryan hits while wearing a Padres lid. 1987: With the game stretching into the 13th inning and the National League out of bench players, Cubs closer Lee Smith is forced to bat. He doesnt have a helmet on hand, so he goes with an Expos lid.1992: Phillies first baseman John Kruks jersey doesnt arrive in time for pregame workouts, so he wear Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzones jersey. Meanwhile, Cleveland pitcher Charles Nagy, who hits left-handed, wears a Rangers helmet while batting in the top of the eighth inning. He singles and then trades the helmet for a right-handed Rangers model, which he wears while running the bases and scoring a run. 1997: Cleveland catcher Sandy Alomar Jr., who is named the games MVP, wears a camera-equipped mask and a stars-and-stripes chest protector.1998: Reds pitcher Jeff Shaw is named to the National League All-Star team but is traded to the Dodgers three days before the game. He becomes the first MLB player to appear in an All-Star Game while wearing his teams uniform for the first time.1998-2000: In an attempt to make the game more visually interesting (or maybe just to sell more caps), MLB decides to have the players uniform numbers and signatures sewn into their All-Star Game caps. The program is scaled back in 2001, when the personalized details are replaced by the All-Star Game logo.2005: MLB and its official batting helmet supplier, Rawlings, decide to use the All-Star Game to showcase a new helmet model, called the Coolflo. With its side vents and reptilian-looking crown, the new lid is a major departure from previous baseball helmets. Its worn by most of the All-Star players and becomes MLBs standard headgear the following season.2009: With base coaches required to wear helmets and the All-Star Game taking place in St. Louis, Dodgers manager Joe Torre -- a former star with the Cardinals in his playing days -- wears a Cardinals helmet while coaching first base. He becomes the first All-Star coach to wear another teams helmet. In addition, Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay wears American League teammate Evan Longorias Rays helmet with the front logo decal removed. 2011: Players selected to the All-Star Game have little gold stars added to the backs of their jerseys and caps. The stars are worn for regular season games in the week leading up to the All-Star break and in the All-Star Game itself.2014: For the first time, a new cap template is used for the All-Star Game. With the game taking place in Minnesota, players wear white-front-paneled caps that recall the Twins 1970s batting helmets.2014 also features one of the stranger All-Star storylines, as Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija is selected to the National League squad and then traded to the As -- an American League team -- a few days before the game. This lands Samardzija in an odd form of statelessness, as MLB rules that he is ineligible to play for either league. He nonetheless appears at the game and is introduced with the National League team while wearing an NL batting practice jersey and a generic All-Star cap.2015: Another new cap format, this time sort of a hybrid, pillbox-esque concept, which is supposed to evoke baseballs old-time mustachioed era but ultimately looks like, well, a cap with some stripes.That brings us up to date.One last thing to remember about this years All-Star Game: Although the game is being played in San Diego, the American League is the designated home team, so National Leaguers will be wearing road uniforms. That includes Padres pitcher Drew Pomeranz, wholl have the unusual experience of wearing a road uni in his home ballpark. But it wont be the Padres regular road uni; the team created a special All-Star design that is basically a gray version of its white home uniform.OK, got all that? Good! 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CLEVELAND -- Surrounded by his infielders, Rick Porcello stared at the ground in disbelief.In a dizzying span of nine pitches, the Cleveland Indians had rocked him for three home runs in the third inning.Bostons ace never quite recovered.The Red Sox didnt either.Francisco Lindors homer capped Clevelands three-homer rampage off the 22-game winner, and the Indians held on for a 5-4 win on Thursday night in their AL Division Series opener.Lindor, Jason Kipnis and Robert Perez went deep in the third off Porcello, who lasted 4 1/3 innings in his shortest outing this year as the Indians landed the first shot in the best-of-5 series against David Ortiz and the AL East champions.Thats never how you want to start off a playoff series, Porcello said. It is what it is.Porcellos shaky start made it tough on the Red Sox, who got home runs from Brock Holt , rookie Andrew Benintendi and Sandy Leon but couldnt get the big hit when they need one late.Boston had chances, but stranded the tying run at third in the eighth when Cleveland closer Cody Allen struck out Xander Bogaerts to end the inning. The Red Sox put a runner on with two outs in the ninth, but Allen fanned Dustin Pedroia on a full-count checked-swing , his 40th pitch, for the save.Pedroia was livid at first base umpire Phil Cuzzis call, and Red Sox manager John Farrell went onto the field to question plate umpire Brian Knight.It was a check swing at a ball in the dirt, Farrell said. At real-time, its a borderline call. After you get a chance to look at video, he swung.Pedroia fired his helmet in disgust as he went to the dugout but later said he overreacted.I went, but I just was frustrated with the situation, said Pedroia, who went 1 for 5 and struck out three times. Ill apologize to Phil tomorrow for giving him a piece of my mind.Indians manager Terry Francona, who won two World Series with Boston, went to his bullpen early. Andrew Miller, acquired by Cleveland in a July trade for an October night like this, pitched two scoreless innings for the win. Summoned by Francona in the fifth, the lefty struck out Ortiz with two on to end the fifth and threw a season-high 40 pitches.Ortiz went 1 for 4 with a double in the first game of his final postseason.Boston turns to David Price in Game 2 in the shadows Friday afternoon against Cleveland ace Corey Kluber. Price is 0-7 in postseason starts and unless he comes up big, Big Papi could be closer to saying his last goodbbye.ddddddddddddClevelands barrage off Porcello in the third was breathtaking.Perez started the salvo with just his second homer in 82 at-bats at home this season. One out later, Kipnis drove a pitch over the wall in right-center, giving Cleveland a 3-2 lead and sending the raucous crowd of 37,763 into delirium. Kipnis had just finished getting a celebratory ride through the dugout when Lindors shot to right barely cleared a leaping attempt by Mookie Betts.Porcello was clearly rocked by the barrage, and as Progressive Field shook, he was visited by Pedroia and others who tried to rally their ace.On those three home runs, you can spin it any way youd like to, Porcello said. But the bottom line is this: I threw the pitches that I thought would be the best pitches, and I couldnt keep them in the ballpark.Farrell attributed Porcellos outing to one of those nights.It was a combination of pitches up in the strike zone and a night where this ballpark played extremely small, Farrell said. Warm weather, the ball was carrying a lot. Uncharacteristic for Rick to be up in the strike zone as much as he was. We were probably about the sixth or seventh inning where there were two outs made on the ground. We were up in the strike zone and they made us pay for it.ODD SOX: The teams combined for an ALDS record-tying six home runs. ... Porcello allowed three homers in an inning for the initial time in the big leagues. He made his first postseason start since 2011, falling to 0-3 with a 5.66 ERA in nine career appearances. . Benintendi became the youngest Boston player to hit a home run in his playoff debut at 22 years, 92 days.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: All-Star knuckleballer Steven Wright, bothered by bursitis in his right shoulder for weeks, will pitch Saturday at Fenway Park. If all goes well, he will head to the Instructional League and could be added Bostons roster if the Red Sox advance.UP NEXTPrice is 0-7 in the postseason as a starter, a mark that has tarnished the five-time All-Stars splendid career. Kluber will be pitching on 10 days rest. He strained a quadriceps last month and the Indians skipped his last start to give him extra time.They faced each other in 34-degree weather on April 5. Price struck out 10. Kluber allowed four runs, including a two-run homer to Betts, as the Red Sox won 6-2. China NFL Jerseys Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap Basketball Jerseys Online Stitched Hockey Jerseys Wholesale Baseball Jerseys Football Jerseys Outlet College Jerseys For Sale Cheap MLB Jerseys Wholesale Soccer Jerseys Wholesale Jerseys For Sale Wholesale NFL Jerseys ' ' '