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2025 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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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]
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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]
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† Denotes top vote-getter in each league
‡ Denotes player was a "Legend Pick", so selected by the Commissioner of Baseball[15]
Roster notes
- ^ Andrew Abbott was named as the roster replacement for Yoshinobu Yamamoto due to Yamamoto starting on Sunday.[16]
- ^ Robert Suárez was named as the roster replacement for Chris Sale due to injury.[16]
- ^ Junior Caminero was named as the roster replacement for Alex Bregman due to injury, and was also named starter in place of José Ramírez due to Ramírez electing not to play.[16]
- ^ Isaac Paredes was named as the roster replacement for José Ramírez due to Ramírez electing not to play.[17]
- ^ Zach McKinstry was named as the roster replacement for Jeremy Peña due to injury.[17]
- ^ Trevor Megill was named as the roster replacement for Freddy Peralta due to Peralta starting on Sunday.[18]
- ^ Joe Ryan was named as the roster replacement for Hunter Brown due to Brown starting on Sunday.[19]
- ^ David Peterson was named as the roster replacement for Robbie Ray due to Ray starting on Sunday.[20]
- ^ Carlos Rodón was named as the roster replacement for Max Fried due to Fried starting on Saturday.[21]
- ^ Carlos Estévez was named as the roster replacement for Jacob deGrom due to deGrom starting on Saturday.[22]
- ^ Casey Mize was named as the roster replacement for Garrett Crochet due to Crochet starting on Saturday.[23]
- ^ Maikel García was named as the roster replacement for Brandon Lowe due to injury.[24]
- ^ Randy Arozarena was named as the roster replacement for Julio Rodríguez due to Rodríguez electing not to play.[25]
- ^ Drew Rasmussen was named as the roster replacement for Yusei Kikuchi due to Kikuchi starting on Saturday.[26]
- ^ Adrián Morejón was named as the roster replacement for Zack Wheeler due to Wheeler starting on Saturday.[27]
- ^ 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).
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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.
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