How the MLB All-Star Game Played Out on Twitter

Major League Baseball touted its 2014 All-Star Game as a , and statistics from Twitter on Tuesday night prove its success

The game generated more than 1 million tweets overall, according to a Twitter blog post on Wednesday morning. Among individual players, however, the New York Yankees' Mariano Rivera walked away the big winner.

In his final All-Star appearance, the 43-year-old Yankees legend and surefire Hall of Famer was named game MVP as the American League recorded a 3-0 shutout win. Fans were eager to pay tribute as well, posting 23,000 tweets per minute around the time he entered the game in the eighth inning. Overall, Rivera was mentioned 350,000 times during and after the game, according to Twitter