#mlb-all-star-game

#mlb-all-star-game

"It was a really easy sell to baseball to host the game here in Philadelphia. It's the logical place." - John Middleton

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was set to start at first base and bat fifth for the American League in the Major League Baseball all-star game, anchoring a powerful batting order.

While emceeing a press conference with Tarik Skubal, Paul Skenes, Dave Roberts, and Aaron Boone, he stammered his way through an answer to some pointed questioning by Jen Ramos Eisen. He also duffed an interview with Shohei Ohtani, at one point instructing Ohtani's interpreter to provide some 'energy on the delivery' of his question.

The festivities surrounding the 2025 MLB All-Star Game officially got going at Truist Park on Friday night with the third-annual HBCU Swingman Classic.

Hideo Nomo made MLB history as the first Japanese pitcher to start the MLB All-Star Game on July 11, 1995, for the National League, pitching two scoreless innings.

"We're all proud on campus," said LaCour, now the school's athletic director and former coach of Fried.

For the second year in a row the Red Sox will send three players to the MLB All-Star Game, with Garrett Crochet, Alex Bregman, and Aroldis Chapman all earning nods.

"It's just cool to see the kind of respect guys give you," Gore said. "That's all you can ask for as a player."

The new designs of the official Los Angeles Dodgers hats for the Home Run Derby and All-Star Game reflect a balance of tradition and contemporary aesthetics, maintaining the team's classic color.

"Clayton is a very, very special person. A very special coach. The Marlins got a really good one," Roberts said when McCullough and the Marlins played at Dodger Stadium in April.