White Sox' Miguel Vargas strikes blow for Chicago with home run in All-Star Game
<p>PHILADELPHIA — White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami was asked to mimic the sound of a home run coming off his bat.</p><p>Without hesitation — and without waiting for an English-to-Japanese translation — he said simply: ‘‘Bang!’’</p><p>Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas provided a big bang for the American League in the eighth<br>inning of its 4-0 victory Tuesday against the National League in the All-Star Game with a homer to left against Dodgers hurler Justin Wrobleski. All three Sox All-Stars — Vargas, Murakami and outfielder Tristan Peters — were in the game at that point at Citizens Bank Park.</p><p>‘‘It was a great moment,’’ Vargas said afterward.
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<p>PHILADELPHIA — White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami was asked to mimic the sound of a home run coming off his bat.</p><p>Without hesitation — and without waiting for an English-to-Japanese translation — he said simply: ‘‘Bang!’’</p><p>Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas provided a big bang for the American League in the eighth<br>inning of its 4-0 victory Tuesday against the National League in the All-Star Game with a homer to left against Dodgers hurler Justin Wrobleski. All three Sox All-Stars — Vargas, Murakami and outfielder Tristan Peters — were in the game at that point at Citizens Bank Park.</p><p>‘‘It was a great moment,’’ Vargas said afterward. Something to remember.’’</p><p>He was the third Sox player to hit a homer in an All-Star Game, joining Frank Thomas (1995) and Magglio Ordonez (2001).</p><p>Murakami had the bad fortune of facing Padres all-world closer Mason Miller in his only at-bat to lead off the ninth. Miller did what he does and whiffed him on four pitches, two of them swinging strikes.
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- <p>PHILADELPHIA — White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami was asked to mimic the sound of a home run coming off his bat.</p><p>Without hesitation — and without waiting for an English-to-Japanese translation — he said simply: ‘‘Bang!’’</p><p>Sox third baseman Miguel Vargas provided a big bang for the American League in the eighth<br>inning of its 4-0 victory Tuesday against the National League in the All-Star Game with a homer to left against Dodgers hurler Justin Wrobleski. All three Sox All-Stars — Vargas, Murakami and outfielder Tristan Peters — were in the game at that point at Citizens Bank Park.</p><p>‘‘It was a great moment,’’ Vargas said afterward.
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White Sox' Miguel Vargas strikes blow for Chicago with home run in All-Star Game
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