The Texas League held its All-Star game Wednesday night in San Antonio. The AA affiliates for both the Cardinals (Springfield) and Royals (Northwest Arkansas) are in this league and had players representing the North team. The South won the game 3-2 before a crowd of 6,121.

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The Springfield Cardinals will have five players on the All-Star roster for the Texas League when the game is played June 29th in San Antonio.

Matt Adams and Alex Castellanos were named starters, while pitchers Maikel Cleto and Michael Blazek and shortstop Ryan Jackson, will be reserves.

Adams leads the Texas League in slugging percentage (.667), is third in RBIs (47) and second in both batting average (.354) and home runs (15). Castellanos is third in the Texas League with 14 home runs.

Cleto is 2-1, with a 2.70 ERA. He has pitched only 30 innings in the Texas League, but has 34 strikeouts. Blazek (7-2, 4.50) leads the league in wins and has 54 strikeouts, more than double his walks total (24). Jackson hit .337 in April but has slumped down to .265 average.

The four-thousand tickets for the Cardinals exhibition game at Hammons Field in Springfield between the major league squad and the AA team went quick this morning. However, for the fans who tried to buy tickets online, they were met with frustration after they were kicked off the system as they finished up their purchase.

Apparently, this was the same broker who handled the Elton John tickets for MSY earlier this week. He says to avoid any potential problems there were experts from that company on sight to work out bugs, but there were still some glitches.

Springfield GM Matt Gifford tried to best explain what happened.  Gifford’s comments