2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game

2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Teams
DateJuly 15, 2025
VenueTruist Park
CityCumberland, Georgia
Managers
TelevisionFox
TV announcersJoe Davis, John Smoltz, Ken Rosenthal, and Tom Verducci
RadioESPN Radio
Radio announcersKarl Ravech, Doug Glanville, and Tim Kurkjian

The 2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game will be the 95th Major League Baseball All-Star Game, and will be played between the American League (AL) and the National League (NL) of Major League Baseball. The game is scheduled to be played on July 15, 2025. The game will be televised nationally by Fox. The game will be hosted by the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia.[1]

Background

Host selection

The Atlanta Braves were awarded the game on November 16, 2023, by Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred. This will be the third time that the Atlanta Braves host an MLB All-Star Game. The previous games were the 1972 edition at Atlanta Stadium, which was renamed to Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium in 1975, and the 2000 edition at Turner Field. The Braves franchise also hosted two earlier All-Star Games: the 1936 edition, when the franchise was located in Boston and the team was known as the Boston Bees, and the 1955 edition, when the franchise was located in Milwaukee and the team was known as the Milwaukee Braves.[2]

Truist Park was originally scheduled to host the 2021 game before it was moved to Denver amid protests against the Election Integrity Act of 2021. At the time of Atlanta's selection as hosts of the 2025 game, the law was still in effect as state legislation, although under legal challenge.[3] In a statement made following the announcement of Atlanta's selection, Georgia governor Brian Kemp stated "Georgia's voting laws haven't changed, but it's good to see the MLB's misguided understanding of them has...We look forward to welcoming the All-Star Game to Georgia."[4]

On July 22, 2024, the 2025 All-Star Game logo was unveiled with the presence of several former Braves players, along with Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox, prior to a scheduled home game against the Cincinnati Reds.[5]

Ceremonial First Pitch

Former all-star position players Andrés Galarraga, Andruw Jones, and Chipper Jones were chosen to throw out the Ceremonial First Pitch prior to the start of the game. All three previously played in the 71st All-Star Game hosted by the Braves in 2000.

Roster selections

The starting rosters for each league's position players plus designated hitter (DH) were determined by fan balloting, which was conducted in two phases. Since 2022, the first-phase top vote-getter for each league automatically received a spot in the starting lineup. The top two vote-getters for every other non-pitching position and DH advanced to the second phase of voting. There are normally six finalists for the three outfield positions in each league, except when an outfielder is the top vote-getter, in which case there are four finalists for the remaining two outfield positions. Voting does not carry over between phases.[6]

First-phase voting was held from June 4 through June 26, and second-phase voting was held from June 30 through July 2. All voting was conducted online, at MLB.com or via the MLB app. Starting players, as selected via voting, were announced on July 2. Reserve position players and all pitchers—selected "via 'Player Ballot' choices and selections made by the Commissioner's Office"—were announced on July 6.[7]

The leading vote-getter in each league during phase one was Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees and Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Judge received the most votes during phase one with 4,012,983 votes.[8][9][10]

Logo and uniforms

On July 22, 2024, the logo for the 2025 All-Star Game was unveiled. The typeface was based on the Braves' team script on the logo and uniforms, while the overall design was inspired by architecture within The Battery Atlanta, an entertainment district around Truist Park.[11]

On September 30, 2024, Major League Baseball announced that each team's regular-season home and away uniforms will be used once again in the All-Star Game, a practice that was last seen in the 2019 game.[12] Standard league-specific uniforms, which players wore for the 2021 through 2024 All-Star Games, will be worn for the July 14 All-Star Workout Day and Home Run Derby; unveiled on June 16, 2025, the Practice/Derby jerseys and hats feature red trim and have primary colors of navy blue for American League participants and light royal blue for National League players.[13]

On July 3, 2025, MLB announced that the Home Run Derby participants from the American League will each wear uniform number 3, while National League entrants will wear number 44 — the respective uniform numbers of Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. The number idea came from CC Sabathia, special assistant to the MLB commissioner and former pitcher, as a nod to not only to the host franchise (Aaron played the bulk of his career with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, while Ruth finished his with the Boston Braves), but also the dates of the Derby (July 14, or 7/14, was Ruth's career home run total) and All-Star Game (July 15, or 7/15, the number where Aaron, in Atlanta, surpassed Ruth on the all-time HR list).[14]

Rosters

† Denotes top vote-getter in each league
‡ Denotes player was a "Legend Pick", so selected by the Commissioner of Baseball[15]

Roster notes

  1. ^ Andrew Abbott was named as the roster replacement for Yoshinobu Yamamoto due to Yamamoto starting on Sunday.[16]
  2. ^ Robert Suárez was named as the roster replacement for Chris Sale due to injury.[16]
  3. ^ Junior Caminero was named as the roster replacement for Alex Bregman due to injury.[16]
  4. ^ Isaac Paredes was named as the roster replacement for José Ramírez due to Ramírez electing not to play.[17]
  5. ^ Zach McKinstry was named as the roster replacement for Jeremy Peña due to injury.[17]
  6. ^ Trevor Megill was named as the roster replacement for Freddy Peralta due to Peralta starting on Sunday.[18]
  7. ^ Joe Ryan was named as the roster replacement for Hunter Brown due to Brown starting on Sunday.[19]
  8. ^ David Peterson was named as the roster replacement for Robbie Ray due to Ray starting on Sunday.[20]
  9. ^ Carlos Rodón was named as the roster replacement for Max Fried due to Fried starting on Saturday.[21]
  10. ^ Carlos Estévez was named as the roster replacement for Jacob deGrom due to deGrom starting on Saturday.[22]
  11. ^ Casey Mize was named as the roster replacement for Garrett Crochet due to Crochet starting on Saturday.[23]
  12. ^ Maikel García was named as the roster replacement for Brandon Lowe due to injury.[24]
  13. ^ Randy Arozarena was named as the roster replacement for Julio Rodríguez due to Rodríguez electing not to play.[25]
  14. ^ Drew Rasmussen was named as the roster replacement for Yusei Kikuchi due to Kikuchi starting on Saturday.[26]
  15. ^ Adrián Morejón was named as the roster replacement for Zack Wheeler due to Wheeler starting on Saturday.[27]
  16. ^ Jacob Misiorowski was named as the roster replacement for Matthew Boyd due to Boyd starting on Saturday.[28]
#: Indicates player would not play (replaced as per reference notes above).

Game summary

Starting lineup

Line score

July 15, 2025 8:20 pm (EDT)
Truist Park in Cumberland, Georgia
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
American League - - - - - - - - - 0 0 0
National League - - - - - - - - - 0 0 0
Attendance: Time:
Umpires: HP – Dan Iassogna; 1B – Marvin Hudson; 2B – Chris Segal; 3B – Jansen Visconti; LF – Jeremie Rehak; RF – Erich Bacchus; Replay Official – Tony Randazzo[29]

National anthems

The Canadian national anthem will be sung by pop singer-songwriter Lauren Spencer Smith. The American national anthem will be sung by Atlanta-based country band Zac Brown Band.

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Major League Baseball All-Star Game History". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved July 6, 2025.
  3. ^ Gonzalez, Alden (April 2, 2021). "MLB moving 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta over Georgia voting law". ESPN.com. Retrieved July 7, 2024.
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  9. ^ Chen, Sonja (June 26, 2025). "Ohtani earns most Phase 1 All-Star votes in NL, will start at DH". MLB.com. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
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  16. ^ a b c "Junior Caminero, Robert Suarez Among 2025 MLB All-Star Game Injury Replacements". bleacherreport.com. July 8, 2025. Retrieved July 8, 2025.
  17. ^ a b "Zach McKinstry picked as AL All-Star sub as Tigers tie Dodgers for most picks for Midsummer Classic". Yahoo Sports. July 9, 2025. Retrieved July 9, 2025.
  18. ^ "Crew celebrates Chourio's 1st walk-off, sweep with Megill's All-Star nod". MLB.com. July 9, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  19. ^ "Ryan named to his first All-Star Game, will join Buxton in Atlanta". MLB.com. July 9, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  20. ^ "Mets pitcher David Peterson replaces Giants left-hander Robbie Ray on NL All-Star roster". Yahoo Sports. July 10, 2025. Retrieved July 10, 2025.
  21. ^ "Yankees' Carlos Rodon named to 2025 All-Star Game". SNY. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  22. ^ "Texas Rangers ace Jacob deGrom to not pitch in MLB All-Star Game". Dallas News. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  23. ^ "With addition of Mize to AL squad, Tigers have 6 All-Stars for the 4th time". MLB.com. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  24. ^ "Estévez, Garcia earn All-Star nods, replace deGrom, Lowe on squad". MLB.com/royals. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  25. ^ "Outfielder Randy Arozarena Named to American League All-Star Team". MLB.com. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  26. ^ "Rasmussen's long journey reaches new milestone: 1st All-Star nod". MLB.com. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  27. ^ "Morejon added to NL All-Star team". MLB.com. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  28. ^ "Misiorowski makes history with All-Star nod after 5th MLB game". MLB.com. July 11, 2025. Retrieved July 11, 2025.
  29. ^ https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/45711674/mlb-tabs-dan-iassogna-crew-chief-home-plate-umpire-asg
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