Mike Trout, Corey Seager, Kenley Jansen, Clayton Kershaw selected to All-Star game

Angels star Mike Trout and a trio of Dodgers were selected Tuesday to the All-Star game.

Closer Kenley Jansen, shortstop Corey Seager and injured pitcher Clayton Kershaw were chosen to represent the Dodgers.

Trout, the Angels’ center fielder, was voted by fans as a starter for the fourth consecutive year. He joins Ken Griffey Jr., Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Al Kaline and Ivan Rodriguez as four-time American League All-Star starters before age 25. Trout also made the All-Star team as a reserve in 2012, his first full season.

Jansen, Seager and Kershaw were selected to the National League team in a vote of players.

Kershaw, who probably would have been the NL starting pitcher for the first time, was selected to the All-Star game for the sixth consecutive season.

Seager became the Dodgers’ first rookie shortstop to be selected since Bill Grabarkewitz in 1970. Jansen, in his final season with the Dodgers before he can file for free agency, became the first Dodgers closer to be selected since Jonathan Broxton in 2010.

The Chicago Cubs accounted for five of the eight NL starters, including the entire infield: first baseman Anthony Rizzo, second baseman Ben Zobrist, shortstop Addison Russell and third baseman Kris Bryant. The other NL starters: Cubs outfielder Dexter Fowler, Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper, New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes and San Francisco Giants catcher Buster Posey.

The Cubs’ five starters were the most selected in a fan election since 1976, when the Cincinnati Reds also had five players voted into the starting lineup. According to Major League Baseball, Zobrist beat Washington Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy by 88 votes (3,013,407 to 3,013,319).

The Boston Red Sox had four players voted into the AL lineup: designated hitter David Ortiz, shortstop Xander Bogaerts and outfielders Mookie Betts and Jackie Bradley Jr. The other AL starters: Trout, first baseman Eric Hosmer and catcher Salvador Perez of the Kansas City Royals, second baseman Jose Altuve of the Houston Astros and third baseman Manny Machado of the Baltimore Orioles.

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