July 16 Chiba Marine Stadium
Hideki Irabu of the Tigers started for the Central League and pitch 3 innings smoothly. His teammates blasted. Tomoaki Kanemoto slammed 2 homers. George Arias homered too. While in the opposing side, Alex Cabrera homered twice. And the Fighter Michihiro Ogasawara had a solo too. The Central League beat the Pacific League 5 to 3. Kanemoto was chosen MVP this time.

July 15 Osaka Dome
Kei Igawa of the Tigers and Hisashi Iwakuma of the Buffaloes started. It was a home run game. The first to homer was the Tigers' George Arias. Yoshitomo Tani of the BlueWave singled to tie the game. Then Kazuo Matsui of the Lions slammed a homer off the Giants' Koji Uehara. His teammate Alex Cabrera with a 2 run, extended the Pacific League's lead. But pinch hitter Yoshinobu Takahashi of the Giants blasted a 2 run, and another home run in the 9th to finish the game a 4 to 4 tie. Takahashi was chosen the game's MVP.

Fans' top picks

	Central League	Pacific League
Pitcher	Kei Igawa (Tigers)	Daisuke Matsuzaka (Lions)
Catcher	Akihiro Yano (Tigers)	Kenji Johjima (Hawks)
First baseman	Shinjiro Hiyama (Tigers)	Alex Cabrera (Lions)
2nd baseman	Makoto Imaoka (Tigers)	Tadahito Iguchi (Hawks)
3rd baseman	George Arias (Tigers)	Michihiro Ogasawara (Fighters)
Shortstop	Atsushi Fujimoto (Tigers)	Kazuo Matsui (Lions)
Outfielder	Tomoaki Kanemoto (Tigers) Norihiro Akahoshi(Tigers) Osamu Hamanaka (Tigers)	Tuffy Rhode (Buffaloes) Yoshitomo Tani (BlueWave) Tomochika Tsuboi (Fighters)

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