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 DETROIT (AP) - Miguel Tejada, Mark Teixeira and their American League teammates gave a new-look All-Star game the same old result. Tejada homered off John Smoltz to start the scoring, Teixeira added a two-run drive off Dontrelle Willis and the AL overcame Kenny Rogers' bumpy inning to beat the NL 7-5 Tuesday night for its eighth straight win.
Mark Buehrle got the victory with two scoreless innings for an AL staff that mostly made Comerica Park live up to its reputation as a pitcher's park in an era of hitter's havens. The AL had a shutout going into the seventh, when Rogers gave up a two-run homer to Andruw Jones, prompting more boos for the Texas lefty, playing while appealing a 20-game suspension.
The AL made it 3-0 since the change in 2003 that gave the All-Star-winning league homefield advantage in the World Series.
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