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ByRonaldBlum TheAssociatedPress CINCINNATI MikeTroutflashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball's new gener- ation, just moments after four of the all-time greats had just walked off the field. Trout became the first player in 38 years to homer leading off an All-Star game, Prince Fielder drove in two runs to show this era is not just about the kids, and AL arms outdueled their more accomplished NL rivals. A new-look All-Star Game fin- ished with the same old result. The AL beat the NL 6-3 Tuesday night and will open the World Series at home for the 10th time in 13 years. In an age of dominant pitch- ing, Felix Hernandez, winner David Price, Zach Britton, Dellin Betances and Wade Davis took scoreless turns in the AL's third win a row. A season after the retirement of Derek Jeter dropped the cur- tain on the turn-of-century greats, the 23-year-old Trout was among six starting posi- tion players under 25 — the most since 1965. He was the MVP of last year's game in Minneapo- lis, when he hit a tiebreaking tri- ple and later a go-ahead double. This time Trout sent Zack Greinke's fourth pitch, a 94 mph fastball on the outer half of the plate, over the wall in right next to the visiting bullpen for an op- posite-field homer. Fielder and Lorenzo Cain had run-scoring hits in the fifth against NL MVP Clayton Ker- shaw that put the AL ahead 3-1. Manny Machado, at 23 an- other of the sport's fresh faces, hit a double off the right-field wall against Francisco Rodri- guez in the seventh and scored on Fielder's sacrifice fly. And Brian Dozier, the last player added to the game as an injury replacement, hit a solo home run off Mark Melancon in the eighth. Stars old and young gathered in one of baseball's most tradi- tional towns. The Reds became baseball's first professional team in 1869, and players wore caps with horizontal stripes in an at- tempt at a 19th century feel. Pete Rose, Cincinnati's hometown hero and baseball's banned career hits leader, was given an 80-second ovation when he walked onto the field before the game to join Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Barry Larkin, elected by fans as the Reds' greatest players. Wearing a red jacket and tie and walk- ing stiffly, the now 74-year-old Charlie Hustle was applauded as soon as his image appeared on the video boards, even before he emerged from the AL dugout. And in the first All-Star Game at Great American Ballpark, which opened in 2003, fans got to see some great ballplayers. Bench, changed into a blue jacket, returned with Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, voted baseball's great living players by fans as part of the promotion. In a sentimental yet stunning reminder of gener- ational change, Aaron, 81, and Morgan, 71, needed canes to reach the infield, and Mays, 84, was aided on and off the field by an assistant. ALL-STAR GAME Trouthomersleading offandALtopsNL American League will open World Series at home for 10th time in 13 years MICHAELE.KEATING —THEASSOCIATEDPRESS American League's Mike Trout, of the Los Angeles Angels, hits a home run during the first inning of the MLB All-Star game Tuesday. By Doug Ferguson The Associated Press ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND Win- less in nearly two years, Tiger Woods at least has experience on his side at St. Andrews. It has been 20 years since he first played the Old Course as a 19-year-old amateur and heard the secret was to hit it hard and hit it left. After playing the Brit- ish Open four times at St. An- drews, and winning twice, he re- alized that wasn't the case. There are bunkers to avoid and angles to create, and it can change with the slightest shift in direction of the notorious wind. Whether that's enough to carry him this week depends more on his golf, which he says is not as hopeless as it might ap- pear. "I'm still young. I'm not 40 yet," said Woods, who has five months left in his 30s. "I know some of you guys think I'm bur- ied and done, but I'm still right here in front of you. Yeah, I love playing. I love competing and I love playing these events." He just doesn't win them — his last major was the 2008 U.S. Open — and it's rare he even con- tends since he chose last year to change his swing about the same time he was trying to recover from another round of injuries. Hope comes from more than just his affection for St. An- drews. Woods said the way he struck the ball in his last tour- nament round — a 67 at The Greenbrier Classic to tie for 32nd — was as good as he has been in two years. "That was awfully nice to be able to do coming into this week," he said. "I've hit the ball just as well in my practice rounds." If that's the case, that would make this an important week because it would be the first time since his last victory — August 2013 at Firestone — that he goes into a major with good health and a reasonable idea what to expect. GOLF Ti ge r ins is ts h e' s no t 'b ur ie d an d don e' By John Leicester The Associated Press LAPIERRE-SAINT-MARTIN,FRANCE Over the earpiece tucked below his helmet, Chris Froome's team sent word that his panting Tour de France rivals were struggling in the thinning air of the high Pyrenees, on the first skyward climb of this year's race. Clearly, they were having a bad day. So Froome decided to make it even worse. Reprising the formula that carried him to victory in 2013, Froome barked an order to three teammates leading him up the punishing ascent: speed up. Shat- tered by the fierce uphill pace, trailing riders scattered behind them, their bluffs called and hopes dashed. The first A-lister to crack was none other than last year's cham- pion, Vincenzo Nibali. Sweat beading off his chin, the Sicilian was cooked. The biggest high-pro- file loser of Stage 10 shed more than 4 minutes to Froome, all but ending his Tour defense. Next, Alberto Contador dropped from the by-now shriv- eled group of the Tour's hardi- est, most pain-resistant climb- ers. The 2007 and 2009 cham- pion zigzagged across the steep tarmac as Froome's trusty lieu- tenant Richie Porte applied yet more speed. That doomed the Spaniard's chances of adding the 2015 Tour to the Giro d'Italia ti- tle he won in May. Two down, one major rival to go. Froome took down Nairo Quintana himself. Rising from his saddle with six kilometers (four miles) still to climb to the La Pierre-Saint-Martin ski re- sort, Froome accelerated away, head down, legs pumping. The bill for Quintana, who rode in third behind Froome and Porte at the top, was very costly: 1 min- ute and 10 seconds lost overall to the British race leader, who is now firmly in control of cycling's showcase race. "When we got up onto that last climb and we heard the big names that were struggling and getting dropped ... I turned to the guys who were still with me at that point — it was Wouter Poels, Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas — and just said, 'Guys, come on let's on push on here. We've got them in trouble,"' Froome said. "I couldn't have asked for it to go any better." For his rivals, it couldn't have been much worse. "Froome has landed a hammer blow on the Tour," said Nibali, the Astana team leader now a whop- ping 6:57 behind Froome over- all in 10th place. "I have no more to give. I'm not even the younger brother of the Nibali from last year." Closest to Froome is still Te- jay van Garderen, the American leader of the BMC team. 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