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Tuesday night into Wednesday morning's Major League All-Star Game (AL 4, NL 3 in 15 innings) from a Salem Avalanche point of view:

Matt Holliday (Avalanche 2000, first half 2001) hit a home run in the fifth inning to score the first run of the game.

Aaron Cook (Avs 2000, 2001) pitched three of the gutsiest shutout innings ever, in the 10th, 11th and 12th. Particularly the 10th when Dan Uggla committed back-to-back brutal errors at second to put the first two runners on base. The AL had runners in scoring position in each of those innings, but Cook (and the rest of the NL defense with the exception of Uggla) wouldn't let them score -- thus sending the game into the wee hours of Wednesday.

Former Virginia Tech pitcher Joe Saunders, now the Los Angeles Angels ace, pitched a scoreless third inning for the victorious American League, giving up a single but nothing else.

Former Ferrum star Billy Wagner was on the mound when the National League blew its second lead in regulation, thus forcing the game into the record-tying 15 inning marathon.

-- katrina waugh