New Delhi, July 15 -- PHILADELPHIA - Cody Bellinger had turned 31 by the time the last out was recorded. He had also won the game's most valuable player award, hit a two-run single off National League starter Cristopher Sanchez in the first inning, and given the American League a lead it spent the next eight innings not needing to surrender. The AL beat the NL 4-0 at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night. Clean, decisive, and Bellinger's.

His father watched from somewhere inside the stadium. Clay Bellinger spent three seasons with the Yankees from 1999 to 2001, winning two World Series rings as a backup outfielder for a dynasty that the franchise has spent the subsequent decades trying to reconstruct. "Just being able to hang out and watch...