Josh Hamilton’s Home Run Derby to remember, Michael Young’s MVP night, Nolan Ryan’s win top the list.
American League's Michael Young of the Texas Rangers triples to center off National League's Trevor Hoffman of the San Diego Padres in the ninth inning of the baseball All Star Game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, July 11, 2006.’ All-Star Game history had as inauspicious a start as the franchise on the field. Their first year in Texas, they didn’t even have a representative in the game. Toby Harrah was named as their rep. He was hurt. Nobody thought he needed to be replaced with another Ranger.
Texas Rangers' Josh Hamilton swings at the ball during the Major League Baseball All-Star Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium in New York on Monday, July 14, 2008. Hamilton hit a record 28 home runs in the first round.didn’t happen during the game, but rather during the Home Run Derby. In what became the most-watched Home Run Derby ever, Josh Hamilton took his baseball rebirth to new heights on the biggest stage.
He smacked several balls more than 500 feet, according to the ESPN broadcast and hit a handful more into the upper deck in right field. He had all of Yankee Stadium — and 10 million viewers at home — in his thrall.The final round, in which Minnesota’s Justin Morneau outhomered an exhausted Hamilton 5-3, was anticlimactic. The performance goes down not just as a great Rangers All-Star memory, but perhaps one of the most exciting All-Star week performances ever.
But at age 42, Ryan entered in relief of starter Dave Stewart and proceeded to strike out three over two scoreless innings at Angels Stadium, which had been his home park for a decade. It was his first pitching appearance there since he left for the Astros in 1980.drove in the only runs of the game with a seventh-inning double off Cincinnati “Nasty Boys” closer Rob Dibble. The first two batters of the seventh inning reached against reliever Jeff Brantley, bringing up Franco for the second time.
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