Six Red Sox players were named to the All-Star team: Dustin Pedroia, Jason Bay, Kevin Youkilis, Josh Beckett, Jonathan Papelbon and Tim Wakefield.

This will be 17-year veteran Tim Wakefield's first All-Star Game - but we'd talked about that a month ago (see Tim Wakefield, All-Star?)

That's awesome.

Especially since on Friday he made his 383 start for the Sox, the most of any Red Sox pitcher ever. (Take that Roger Clemens and, oh yeah, sorry Cy Young.)