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Dodgers help NL to All-Star win

Kemp, Ethier, Kershaw all key in 5-1 victory. Angels' players not quite as impactful

Updated: July 13, 2011, 2:35 AM ET
By Tony Jackson | ESPNLosAngeles.com

PHOENIX -- Matt Kemp's first All-Star experience didn't look much like his first half of the season. There wasn't much that was worthy of hyperbole, there wasn't anything that will go down as a great moment in the history of the so-called Midsummer Classic and there weren't any big displays of power even in the Home Run Derby, in which he managed to go yard only twice.

But minutes after Tuesday night's game, a 5-1 National League victory before a sellout crowd of 47,994 at Chase Field, the ...

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