The fifty seventh All-Star Game was played on July 15, 1986 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. This year the American League launched a ‘Rocket’ at the Nationals named Roger Clemens. With help from Ted Higuera, Charlie Hough, Dave Righetti and Don Aase, he shut down the National League and started his record setting All-Star Game Career. In the second, Lou Whitaker followed a Dave Winfield double with a homer off Dwight Gooden. During the seventh inning of the 1986 Midsummer Classic, Frank White pinch hit for Lou Whitaker and hit and 0-2 pitch from Mike Scott over the left-center fence. The National League made it interesting in the bottom of the eight by roughing up Hough for two runs. In the ninth, the National League had runners at first and third with one out when Aase got White to hit a check-swing grounder for a double play. Fernando Valenzuela struck out five consecutive batters and National League pitchers mowed down seven more.

The five consecutive strike outs [Don Mattingly, Cal Ripken, Jr., Jesse Barfield, Lou Whitaker and Teddy Higuera] by Fernando Valenzuela tied him with the All Star record set during the 1934 All-Star Game by Carl Hubbell. It was the third All-Star Game in a row to featured outstanding performances by the men on the hill. Roger Clements pitched three perfect innings, no hits allowed and no walks allowed, which included only three balls and twenty-one strikes, against the formidable National League lineup earning him the All-Star Most Valuable Player Award. The National League pitching staff stuck out twelve batters, a total equaled only three times before in All-Star History: 1934 All-Star Game [National League], 1956 All-Star Game [American League] and 1959 All-Star Game [National League]. Wally Joyner was the first rookie to be elected to the starting team of an All-Star squad by the fans and the fifteenth rookie overall to actually start in a Midsummer Classic. In a game dominated by great pitching, some fans forget there were also two balks, a wild pitch, and a passed ball. The American League won this All-Star Game 3-2 against the American League.