2006 MLB All-Star Game

2006 MLB All-Star Game

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PNC Park is all decked out for the 77th All-Star Game.

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Brad Penny delivers the first pitch of the 77th All-Star Game to Ichiro.

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Chuck Tanner (center), manager of the 1979 World Series champion Pirates, is joined by Manny Sanguillen, Dave Parker, Bill Madlock and Kent Tekulve for the ceremonial first pitch.

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Brad Penny struck out the side in the first inning, joining Pedro Martinez as the only pitchers to open an All-Star Game with three straight punchouts.

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Vladimir Guerrero got the American League on the board first with a solo homer in the second inning.

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David Wright (right), runner-up in the Home Run Derby, became the 13th player to hit a home run in his first All-Star Game at-bat.

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Ivan Rodriguez prevents Alfonso Soriano from scoring a run in the third inning.

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Roberto Clemente's widow accepts a special commissioner's award honoring her late husband.

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Freddie Sanchez of the hometown Pittsburgh Pirates gets full extension to snag a Mark Loretta liner in the fifth inning.

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Jim Thome, one of seven White Sox players on the AL All-Star team, shatters his bat on an eighth-inning groundout.

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Michael Young delivered the game-winning hit, smacking a two-out, two-strike, two-run triple off Trevor Hoffman in the ninth inning.

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Mariano Rivera retired the side in the ninth inning for his record-tying third career All-Star Game save.

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The American League has home-field advantage in the World Series once again and has not lost an All-Star Game since 1996.

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Michael Young is the third Texas Rangers player to win All-Star Game MVP honors.