Historic swing-off and robot umpires: How the 2025 MLB All-Star Game played out in Atlanta

Ronald Blum · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 15, 2025 8:44 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Kyle Schwarber went three for three in the archetypal All-Star Game location tally swing-off arsenic the National League (NL) won the crippled connected a tiebreaker following a 6-6 tie, successful which the American League (AL) rallied from a six-run shortage connected Tuesday night.

In baseball's equivalent of soccer's penalty-kicks shootout, the crippled was decided by having 3 batters from each league instrumentality 3 swings each disconnected coaches.

Schwarber was named All-Star MVP aft going zero for two with a locomotion successful the game, but helium had the decisive plaything that enactment the NL squad up 4-3 successful the swing-off.

Players from some teams stood extracurricular their dugouts during the swing-off, jumping and shouting aft each homer from their side. When Jonathan Aranda's past plaything for the AL fell short, NL players circled astir Schwarber to celebrate.

"It was awesome," Schwarber said. "The guys were truly into it. They were yelling, screaming, cheering maine connected each swing. And past erstwhile that past 1 goes over, they were each pumped. It was a batch of fun."

Managers had to state their swing-off orders earlier the game, though Kyle Stowers subbed for Eugenio Suarez for the NL aft Suarez was deed connected the manus by a transportation precocious successful the game.

Brent Rooker enactment the AL up by homering connected his past 2 swings, and Stowers deed one.

Randy Arozarena boosted the AL pb to 3-1, and Schwarber was palmy connected each 3 tries, going down to a genu arsenic helium sent the 1 into the Chop House seats successful right.

'We did it the casual way'

Aranda failed connected each 3 tries, hitting the right-field partition with his second, and the NL didn't person to usage its past batter, two-time Home Run Derby champion Pete Alonso, arsenic it won for conscionable the 2nd clip successful the past 12 All-Star Games. The AL leads 48-45 with 2 ties.

"I was acceptable for it," said Alonso, who began warming up successful a batting cage erstwhile the AL tied the crippled successful the ninth inning. "But I'm gladsome Schwarbs did it and we did it the casual way."

Ketel Marte's two-run treble successful the archetypal had enactment the NL ahead, and Alonso's three-run homer disconnected Kris Bubic and Corbin Carroll's solo changeable against Casey Mize opened a 6-0 pb successful the sixth inning.

The AL comeback began erstwhile Rooker deed a three-run pinch homer against Randy Rodriguez successful a four-run seventh inning that included Bobby Witt Jr.'s RBI groundout.

Robert Suarez allowed consecutive doubles to Byron Buxton and Witt with 1 retired successful ninth, and Steven Kwan's infield deed connected a three-hopper to 3rd disconnected Edwin Diaz drove successful the tying run.

Heat connected the mound

Joe Torre, the 84-year-old erstwhile Yankees manager, went to the mound for a pitching alteration successful the eighth to instrumentality the shot from Shane Smith and manus it to Andrés Muñoz. The Hall of Famer was picked arsenic a manager by existent New York skipper Aaron Boone, who managed the AL.

Paul Skenes, the archetypal pitcher to commencement the All-Star Game each of his archetypal 2 seasons, struck retired Gleyber Torres and Riley Greene successful a cleanable archetypal that included Aaron Judge's inning-ending groundout. The 23-year-old right-hander reached 100 mph connected 4 of 14 pitches.

Jacob Misiorowski, a arguable inclusion aft pitching successful conscionable 5 large league games successful his rookie season, fired 9 pitches of 100 mph oregon much successful a one-hit eighth 34 days aft his large league debut. The 23-year-old righty, added to the NL roster by shot Commissioner Rob Manfred, reached 102.3 mph.

There were 21 pitches of 100 mph oregon more, down from a grounds 23 past twelvemonth but up from 13 successful 2023, 10 successful 2022 and 1 successful 2021.

Robot umpire debuts

Four of 5 challenges were palmy successful the archetypal usage of the robot umpire successful the All-Star Game.

Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh signaled for an entreaty to the Automated Ball-Strike System successful the archetypal inning, getting a strikeout for Detroit's Tarik Subal connected San Diego's Manny Machado.

Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson besides was palmy arsenic the archetypal batter to telephone for a challenge, reversing a 1-0 fastball from Washington's MacKenzie Gore successful the 5th inning that had been called a strike. Mets person Edwin Diaz and Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk besides won challenges, and Marlins outfielder Kyle Stowers mislaid one.

Freddie Freeman was removed for Alonso with 2 outs successful the 3rd inning, giving the assemblage of 41,702 a accidental to cheer a subordinate who spent 12 seasons with the Braves and helped triumph the 2021 World Series title.

Teams were backmost successful their regular-season nine jerseys — whites for the NL, mostly grays for the AL — aft 4 years of peculiar All-Star uniforms that were overmuch criticized.

Baseball benignant connected show successful Atlanta

Jazz Chisholm Jr. arrived successful a Valentino smoking overgarment and Christian Louboutin shoes. Instead of having players enactment up connected the foul lines arsenic they were introduced, they walked to a four-level reddish podium stretching crossed the infield ungraded with flashing lights, fume a DJ and dancers.

The crippled is being played successful Atlanta, immoderate mightiness say, 4 years late. 

The 2021 All-Star Game has antecedently been awarded to Atlanta. But conscionable months earlier it was to beryllium played, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced it would beryllium moved — due to the fact that Georgia had precocious passed a instrumentality that galore said restricted voting rights, peculiarly among non-white voters. 

"Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for each Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box," Manfred said astatine the time. 

The instrumentality remains successful place, though immoderate parts person been blocked by national courts. Asked aboriginal astir the determination to person Atlanta big this year's game, Manfred said helium understood that immoderate radical "probably inactive person antithetic views" connected his determination to determination the crippled successful 2021. 

He added that what's "most important" is that Atlanta's squad is "a large organization." 

The American League has won 10 of the past 11 editions of the Midseason Classic.