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It started with Barack Obama’s political pitch — short of the plate but purposefully down the center — and while it ended with Mariano Rivera’s record-setting fourth save, the 2009 All-Star Game will be remembered for Brad Hawpe’s near moment in the sun. Hawpe, by every measure, is having a career first half with a .320 batting average, 14 home runs and 59 runs batted in. Yet, the sweet-swinging lefty is rarely talked about in baseball circles, mainly because those talking heads congregate along the Eastern seaboard. He had his chance to shine in the seventh inning of a 3-3 stalemate on Tuesday, only to have it stolen by Carl Crawford, and stolen is an apt description for the Tampa outfielder with at least 46 swiped bags in five of his last six full campaigns and 44 already this season. Yet, it wasn’t Crawford’s speed, but rather his perfect timing that robbed Hawpe of a go-ahead solo shot off Boston’s Jonathan Papelbon in the seventh frame and put him front and center once again in
