Besieged by the booing of partisan New York Yankees fans, J.D. Drew and the Boston Red Sox had a rewarding Major League Baseball All-Star game at Yankee Stadium.

Drew hit a tying, two-run homer in the seventh inning on Tuesday and took home MVP honors.

The Boston outfielder also singled and finished 2-for-4 to help the American League beat the National League 4-3 in 15 innings in a game that lasted 4 hours, 50 minutes.

"One of those undescribable events," Drew said as he was presented with a car for winning the MVP. The presentation was accompanied by booing by the scattered crowd that remained at about 1:50am local time.

So intense is the rivalry between the Yankees and the Red Sox that the seven Boston players were booed throughout despite playing on the same team as the Yankees, and helping the AL's cause in a match that decides homefield advantage in the World Series.

Drew did receive some cheers for his seventh inning homer, becoming the 15th player to go deep in his first All-Star at-bat.

"It was brief to say the least," Drew said of the cheers. "It was a little weird. I heard about it when I got back to right field for sure. Then as the game went along, they forgot that I hit a home run, and it picked up again."

The Yankee Stadium crowd got started early, tuning up when Boston's contingent was introduced during pregame ceremonies. They reserved their loudest boos for Red Sox sluggers Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz.

Ortiz, who missed the game with a wrist injury, playfully put up his fists as jeers rained down from the crowd.

Red Sox catcher Jason Varitek said the heckling actually began hours before the game, during the All-Star parade up 6th Avenue in Manhattan.

(Agencies via Shanghai Daily July 17, 2008)