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While Milwaukee’s Prince Fielder took home the Home Run Derby crown in St. Louis tonight during All-Star festivities, the Yankees’ Shelley Duncan nearly equaled the feat out in Portland in the Triple-A All-Star Game’s Home Run Derby. Duncan wound up losing to the local favorite, Portland’s Chad Huffmann, when Huffmann had five homers to Duncan’s one in the final round of the event.

Duncan hit five homers in the first round, and then four more in the second round to make the finals.