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ARLINGTON, Texas -- On a night when , baseball's pitching phenom, toed the rubber for a historic All-Star Game start, and , the sport's brightest star, demolished a home run for the National League, it was a former top prospect enjoying a breakout season who stole the show at the 2024 All-Star Game on Tuesday. center fielder completed the American League's comeback at Globe Life Field with a two-run homer off fireballer . With the blast, the first by a Red Sox player at an All-Star Game since Adrian Gonzalez in 2011, Duran became the fifth player in franchise history to be named the game's MVP and the first since J.

D. Drew in 2008. Duran, 27, helped erase a deficit created when Ohtani smashed a 400-foot, three-run home run against Red Sox right-hander to open the scoring in the third inning.



It was the designated hitter's first career All-Star Game home run and second by a Dodgers player since Mike Piazza in 1996. Ichiro Suzuki's inside-the-park home run in 2007 had been the only home run by a Japanese-born player in All-Star Game history. Those three runs were the only runs the National League scored in what ended up being the shortest All-Star Game -- at 2 hours, 28 minutes -- since 1988.

The game began with some drama. 's exceptional skill, the trait that has placed him on a path to first-ballot Hall of Fame status, is an uncanny ability to reach base. Never has the baseball universe, in unison, wanted to see the right fielder get that job done more than in the first innin.

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