2023 This Month in Baseball

Rod Carew sets ASG record with 2 triples- 7/11/78 (46/142)

Rod Carew batted leadoff for the American League in the 1978 All-Star Game and set a record by hitting two triples. Both three-baggers came off Vida Blue. It was Carew's last All-Star Game as a player on the Minnesota Twins. He was traded to the Angels in the offseason, where he would spend the final seven years of his big league career.