The AL got out to a 1-0 lead thanks to the power of former National Leaguer Prince Fielder, which stood until the bottom of the sixth when fellow Home Run Derby contestant Carlos Gonzalez delivered a big two run homer that put the NL up by one.

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Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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Luke Montz homered leading off the fourth his first home run since 2008 and Yoenis Cespedes hit a two-run homer in the fifth for a 4-1 lead.

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He signed it after his monster 54 home run, 156 RBI season of 2007 when it appeared he would easily smash the 800 career homer plateau.

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Robinson Cano hit his team-high 13th home run in the first inning for New York, David Adams clubbed his first major-league homer in the second and Lyle Overbay connected in the seventh.

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Valdespin's homer landed on the walkway beside the berm down the right-field line, his fourth home run of the exhibition season.

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Hample caught Barry Bonds' 724th home run in 2006 and said this was the third time he's nabbed a player's first big league homer, with Gregorius joining Mike Trout and Mike Nickeas.

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