Future bright for Fielder

? Prince Fielder swung so hard, he stumbled across home plate and nearly fell into the other batter’s box.

“I wanted to hit that ball off the Jumbotron,” he said.

A rookie mistake by the top Milwaukee prospect — and son of former major-league slugger Cecil — in the All-Star Futures game Sunday, with the U.S. team beating the World squad, 4-3.

Last-minute addition Aaron Hill of the Toronto organization won the MVP award with a two-run double in leading the team managed by former star reliever Goose Gossage. Wilfredo Ledezma, who pitched for Detroit last season, took the loss for Fernando Valenzuela’s club.

The Futures game brings a lot of baseball’s top young talent to the ballpark where the big-league All-Stars will play in a couple of days. In the first Futures game, Alfonso Soriano homered off Mark Mulder at Fenway Park in 1999.

With his dad watching from the dugout, Fielder also was thinking home run.

After Fielder lined an opposite-field single to left field his first time up, the lefty took aim at the seats in right. Instead, he struck out taking a huge cut against Atlanta’s Jose Capellan and almost toppled over.

“I wanted to make sure I could go the other way, then I changed that,” Fielder said.

“It was over my head. I had no business swinging,” he said.

The seventh overall pick in the 2002 draft, Fielder has quickly moved up through the minors. He was the MVP of the Class A Midwest League last season, hitting .313 with 27 homers and 112 RBIs at Beloit.

This season, the 20-year-old is hitting .256 with 14 homers and 46 RBIs at Double-A Huntsville.