Jarren Duran named MVP after game-winning home run in first career All-Star at-bat
It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.
Jarren Duran made a strong case to be an All-Star starter, but it was as a reserve that he made the biggest impact of anyone on the roster: his led Team American League to a 5-3 win, and was named Ted Williams All-Star MVP.
He ended up making more of an impact off the bench than the Team American League starters, and finished his first All-Star Game as the Ted Williams MVP winner.
With the game tied 3-3, a man on and two out in the fifth, the Red Sox leadoff man crushed the second pitch he saw from Cincinnati Reds star Hunter Greene. Blasted 413 feet to right-center at 106.8 mph, it would’ve been a homer in every ballpark; the definition of a no-doubter.
The Red Sox haven’t had an All-Star homer since Adrian Gonzalez in 2011. Duran and J.D. Drew (2008) are the only two Red Sox players to homer in their first career All-Star at-bat. According to media relations, Duran, Fred Lynn (1980), and Ted Williams (1941) are the only Red Sox players to hit go-ahead home runs in the fifth inning of an All-Star Game or later.
“This guy is the future of the Red Sox,” David Ortiz said on the postgame show.
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