Brandon Crawford did not play the best baseball he’s ever played on Tuesday. He didn’t even play baseball that represented the season he, or the San Francisco Giants are having.
It doesn’t matter.
The National League lost to the American League 5-2 in the 2021 MLB All-Star Game, and Crawford came off the bench to pop up in his lone plate appearance and commit an error on one of the only baseballs hit in his direction.
Again: doesn’t matter.
Now, were this an older All-Star Game, when they still had the winner decide home field advantage for the World Series, you could argue that it would have mattered.