Players pushed for end to All-Star/World Series link

Having been pitched in five All-Star Games - losing the 2015 contest in Cincinnati - Clayton Kershaw wants them to have no part in determining World Series home-field advantage. ''It's an exhibition, so it shouldn't count,'' the Los Angeles Dodgers ace said Monday at the winter meetings. The American League won 11 of 14 All-Star Games played under the rule that gave home-field advantage to the World Series winner, and the AL representative won eight World Series in those years.