Trout, who finished second to Cabrera in AL MVP voting in each of the past two seasons, became the youngest All-Star MVP, about 3 1/2 months younger than Ken Griffey Jr. was in 1992.
Playing in his third All-Star Game, Trout followed Jeter in the first by tripling off the right-field wall. Cabrera’s homer — just the fourth in the past six All-Star games — made it 3-0, but the NL tied it on consecutive RBI doubles by Chase Utley and Jonathan Lucroy off Jon Lester in the second and Lucroy’s run-scoring double against Chris Sale in the fourth.
Trout put the AL ahead for good with an RBI double in the fifth — a bouncer over third base against Pat Neshek, the St. Louis reliever who grew up in the Minneapolis suburbs and started his career with the Twins. Jose Altuve followed with a sacrifice fly off Tyler Clippard.