The AL got all five of its runs on homers, the first coming from Ichiro Suzuki (who also collected two other hits to earn MVP laurels) on an inside the park homer into Pac Bell Park’s triples alley. Carl Crawford and Victor Martinez added homers later, and it was 5-2 AL heading into the ninth. JJ Putz retired the first two batters, but then the NL mounted a furious rally to try to avenge the AL’s two-out, bases empty ninth inning rally in the 2008 game. Dmitri Young got an infield single, Alfonso Soriano homered, and JJ Hardy walked to drive Putz from the game. K-Rod came in and promptly walked Derrek Lee and Orlando Hudson, but he got Aaron Rowand to fly to right to get the save by the skin of his teeth.
Playing in his last All-Star Game, Barry Bonds was 0-2, but at least he got to play in front of an appreciative home crowd rather than in front of the jackals that would have confronted him in any of the other 29 parks.
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