In baseball’s equivalent of soccer’s penalty-kicks shootout, the game was decided by having three batters from each league take three swings each off coaches.

The previous biggest lead any team had ever blown in an All-Star Game: five, in 1955, when Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams powered the AL to a 5-0 lead with nine outs to go … and the NL came all the way back and won, 6-5, on a walk-off homer by Stan Musial … in the 13th inning.