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Jul 15, 2025, 07:00 AM ET
The 2025 MLB All-Star Game has arrived!
Will the American League proceed its dominance implicit the National League with its 11th triumph successful 12 years?
All-Star newcomers, specified arsenic Pete Crow-Armstrong, and veterans, specified arsenic Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, volition articulation the remainder of baseball's champion and descend connected Truist Park, location of the Atlanta Braves, for this year's Midsummer Classic -- and we'll person unrecorded updates and investigation from Atlanta passim the crippled (8 p.m. ET connected Fox).
After the last transportation is thrown, ESPN's MLB experts volition stock their biggest takeaways close present arsenic well. Let's footwear disconnected the time with immoderate predictions for tonight's game.
The starting lineups
Who volition triumph the All-Star Game and by what score?
Jorge Castillo: The National League 5-2. The NL has the amended lineup and volition triumph the crippled for conscionable the 2nd clip since 2012, erstwhile Melky Cabrera won MVP honors successful Kansas City.
Jeff Passan: The National League volition triumph 3-1. The NL has a acold superior lineup to the AL, and successful an All-Star Game wherever pitchers are improbable to propulsion much than 1 inning each, the quality to heap up baserunners seeing a pitcher for the archetypal clip is paramount. The NL is much equipped to bash that than the AL.
Who is your All-Star Game MVP pick?
Jesse Rogers: Cal Raleigh. I mean, he's going to homer ... that's a given. He mightiness adjacent deed two. The "Big Dumper" is going to dump a blast into the right-field stands, putting different exclamation people connected an already unthinkable season. He won the HR Derby, and he'll triumph All-Star Game MVP.
Alden Gonzalez: Pete Crow-Armstrong. He'll person the astir productive violative nighttime among the NL starters and, astatine immoderate point, marque an unthinkable drawback successful halfway field. Crow-Armstrong is 95 games into his age-23 play and has already accumulated 4.9 FanGraphs wins supra replacement. He has go a prima close earlier our eyes -- and helium seems to emotion the lights much than most.
What's the matchup you are astir excited to see?
Rogers: Let's commencement the bottommost of the archetypal inning disconnected with a bang, arsenic Tarik Skubal, the starting pitcher for the AL, volition look Shohei Ohtani, who is conscionable 1-for-9 disconnected the left-hander. Does the reigning AL Cy Young victor get an aboriginal strikeout of the reigning NL MVP, oregon does Ohtani yet get to Skubal? Not galore matchups are guaranteed successful the All-Star Game, but this 1 is -- and it's astir arsenic bully arsenic it gets.
Castillo: Jacob Misiorowski against anybody. The rookie right-hander's inclusion aft conscionable 5 vocation starts produced a disturbance crossed the majors, and each eyes volition beryllium connected him erstwhile helium takes the mound. When helium does, his 103 mph fastball should surely play successful his 1 inning. He's arsenic pugnacious of a matchup arsenic immoderate pitcher successful this game.
Who is the 1 All-Star fans volition cognize overmuch amended aft tonight's game?
Gonzalez: The San Diego Padres ended up sending 3 relievers to the All-Star Game, but determination was 1 wide bullpen typical from the outset: Adrian Morejon. The 26-year-old left-hander doesn't get overmuch notoriety, but helium has been utterly dominant, posting a 1.85 ERA and an expected slugging percent of .263. He doesn't onslaught hitters retired astatine the absurd rates of immoderate of today's astir ascendant pitchers, but helium gets outs. And he'll astir apt get 3 large ones toward the extremity of the night.
Passan: Perhaps they already cognize Misiorowski due to the fact that his fastball sits astatine 100 mph and his slider is successful the mid-90s, but this is the benignant of showcase built for him. One inning, fto it devour and amusement that adjacent though his vocation is lone 5 starts deep, this volition beryllium the archetypal of galore All-Star appearances for the 23-year-old.
