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By Marc Katz, Staff Writer Updated 3:05 AM Thursday, July 16, 2009

DAYTON — Plenty of future major-league All-Stars play at Fifth Third Field, especially against the Dragons.

When they’re here, you just don’t know who they are.

At Monday’s MLB All-Star Home Run Derby, five of the contestants had played in games at Fifth Third, including Albert Pujols (Peoria, 2000), Adrian Gonzalez (Kane County, 2001), Joe Mauer (Quad Cities, 2002), Prince Fielder (Beloit, 2003) and Nelson Cruz (Kane County, 2003).

Pujols and Gonzalez even hit a couple of home runs here.

Nobody hit any homers Wednesday, July 15, but future All-Stars may have played as the Dragons opened a six-game homestand with a 4-3 victory over Quad Cities, escaping a three-run River Bandits’ ninth.

Dayton scored twice in the first off Josh Fellhauer’s double and Carlos Mendez’s triple, but needed a run in the second and Kevyn Feiner’s two-out, run-scoring single in the seventh.

Cutis Partch went six, extending his scoreless streak to 15 innings over three games, even though he said, “You’re not supposed to think about that stuff.”

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Righty Mark Serrano, a sixth-round draft pick by the Reds out of Oral Roberts last month, is here and will pitch a few innings of relief before joining the rotation.

He’s the oldest on the team, turning 24 on Sept. 14.