Game 1 of the 2014 NPB All-Star Series turned into a showcase of the Hiroshima Carp's various talents about midway through. Just as in the regular season, Brad Eldred was right in the middle of it all.

Eldred hit a two-run home run in the seventh, drove in four runs overall, and added an All-Star MVP award to the home run derby crown he won earlier in the night as he helped the Central League beat the Pacific League 7-0 in Game 1 of the 2014 NPB All-Star Series.

"It was great," Eldred, a first-time All-Star, said. "You don't really know what to expect. You try to obviously put up a good performance. To have a big day like that, it's not expected because you have such good competition. So it makes it a little bit nicer to do that against good competition."