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October is a month away, but Citizens Bank Park was rocking Thursday night as Kyle Schwarber made history. In the bottom of the seventh inning, Schwarber knocked out his fourth home run of the night, a bomb to right field that sent the hometown crowd into a frenzy. He actually had the rare chance for a fifth, but popped out …

ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber was nervous. He had played in Game 7 of the World Series, homered for the United States in the World Baseball Classic. But he had never walked up to the plate in an All-Star Game swing-off. No one had. “That’s kind of like the baseball version of a shootout,” he said after homering on all …