2006 MLB All-Star Game

SI Staff | Jul 12, 2006

2006 MLB All-Star Game /

2006 MLB All-Star Game

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published Jul 12, 2006

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