July 16, 2008
NOT THAT THERE'S EVER A BAD DAY TO BE THEO...:
Boston OF J.D. Drew wins All-Star game MVP award (Mike Fitzpatrick, 7/16/08, AP)
J.D. Drew waited 11 seasons to make an All-Star team, and just a few pitches to get a huge hit.Drew hit a tying, two-run homer in his first All-Star at-bat Tuesday night and took home MVP honors after a wild Midsummer Classic.
The Boston outfielder also singled and finished 2-for-4 to help the American League beat the NL 4-3 in 15 innings in a game that lasted 4 hours, 50 minutes.
"One of those undescribable events," Drew said near second base, booed by the scattered crowd that remained at about 1:50 a.m.
He was nearly asked to do more than hit.
"He might have been a little more of an MVPer if we went a couple more innings. He might have pitched," AL manager Terry Francona of the Red Sox said. "He's been begging me a long time to pitch, and we almost got close."
Drew said he would have been ready to take the mound if the AL ran out of pitchers
...but yesterday had to be especially sweet. Nancy has been the Sox MVP this season, now the MVP of the gathering of the game's best, and headed for October and two rings in the first two years of his contract.
Meanwhile, one of the team's impossibly numerous prospects was the MVP of the Futures Game at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.
