MLB All-Star Game includes four with Nashville-area ties

Four major league players with ties to the Nashville area were selected to the All-Star Game scheduled for Tuesday in Cleveland.

The game is set for 6:30 p.m. and will air on Fox.

Three of the four played at Vanderbilt. Those three are all starting pitchers – Walker Buehler, Sonny Gray and Mike Minor.

Here is a look at the four local athletes selected for this year's game.

Mookie Betts

The Overton graduate was named to the American League team as a reserve. Betts, a Red Sox outfielder, is hitting .272 with 13 home runs and 40 RBIs. He has scored 77 runs this season.

This marks the fourth straight MLB All-Star game for Betts, who was the 2018 American League MVP.

Walker Buehler

The former Vanderbilt standout is 8-1 with a 3.46 ERA for the Dodgers. Buehler has struck out 113 batters and walked 14 this season.

Buehler is making his first All-Star Game appearance.

Sonny Gray

Gray, a Smyrna graduate and former Vanderbilt standout, was named to the National League team to replace the Nationals' Max Scherzer. 

Gray is 5-5 with a 3.59 ERA for the Cincinnati Reds in 17 starts. He has 103 strikeouts and 33 walks in 90⅓ innings this season.

This marks his second All-Star Game selection. He did not play in his first one in 2015.

Mike Minor

Minor, a Forrest graduate and former Vanderbilt standout, enters the All-Star break with an 8-4 record for the Rangers. He has a 2.54 ERA and two complete games. He has struck out 114 batters and walked 41.

It's Minor first All-Star Game, but he will not play so he can get extra rest.

Reach Tom Kreager at 615-259-8089 or tkreager@tennessean.com and on Twitter @Kreager.