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Welcome to the All-American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation®! GAME UPDATE:ALL-AMERICAN BASEBALL GAME PRESENTED BY PLAYSTATION® AIRDATES
2007 All-American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation® "It Got Late Very Early" by Mandy Manis On June 9th, 2003 the inaugural All-American Baseball Game was played in Little Falls, New Jersey at Yogi Berra Stadium. The game has certainly grown in five short years and the 5th annual All American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation® was played on June 4, 2007 at beautiful Isotopes Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year’s contest was played before a record crowd of 9,350 fans in attendance. The game was televised on Fox Sports Net and featured 40 of the top high school baseball players in American. The 2007 game kicked off with pregame festivities that featured more than 3,000 local little leaguers and coaches entering Isotopes stadium for Albuquerque’s largest ever little league parade. The colors of their individual teams and uniforms made a bright and festive banner statement. The nation’s colors were presented and the National Anthem was sung and then the 2007 All-Americans took the field. The very funny and memorable Yogi Berra zinger "It got Late very Early" played into this years game as the West team came with their bats swinging. The game's only home run came in the first inning by Tim Alderson (Scottsdale, AZ) of the West Team. Alderson blasted a 3-Run home in his first plate appearance and set the tone for the rest of the evening. The West had jumped to a 10-1 lead by the end of the fourth inning and at the game's end scored two more runs for a 12-1 final score. Alderson, also the winning pitcher for the West, was named the 2007 All-American Game’s Most Valuable Player. Although this year’s All-American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation® resulted in a heavily lopsided offensive slaughter by the West bats, the game was wonderful in every sense and provided everything a baseball fan would hope for. The atmosphere at Isotopes Park was electric and the evening was perfect for baseball. The perfect ending to something so All-American was the evening's beautiful fireworks finale. One of the unique highlights of the game was when Quinyuan Meng (pronounced Munk) who had traveled all the way from Beijing, China with an international interpreter to be a member of the East Team. Fans and players from both teams were on the edge of their seats and on their feet in support, cheering Meng on as he took the mound for the East squad. As Yogi Berra's zingers are well remembered - the fans would have stayed all night seeking autographs & souvenirs from the All-Americans, but sadly the time came when it was late and high school baseball for 2007 had been again highlighted with the All-American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation!® Skills Competition Recap by Mandy Manis The 2007 All-American Baseball Game presented by PlayStation® Skills Day Competition was action packed and gave fans lots to cheer for. The Reebok Fastest to the First Competition came down to DJ Jones and Rafael Thomas in the finals. Both players registered the exact same time (3.75) in the finals before Thomas ran a 3.67 in the first ever ‘run-off’ at the competition. The homerun derby produced some mammoth shots by the two finalists Cameron Rupp and Tim Alderson. The longest of the day was produced by Rupp when it hit off the scoreboard in left en route to a six homerun first round. Alderson qualified by putting up five in the first round before being beat 4-1 in the finals by Rupp. Skills Day Statistics:
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