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Jul 16, 2025, 07:22 PM ET NEW YORK — The MLB All-Star Game — which featured the event’s first swing-off to determine the winner — averaged 7,185,000 viewers Tuesday night on Fox, according to Nielsen. It was Fox’s most-watched telecast since the Super Bowl and the network’s best audience for a Tuesday night since last year’s Game 4 of the …

ATLANTA — Minutes before he went to one knee and golfed a pitch into the right-field seats at Truist Park to effectively seal an All-Star Game victory for the National League on Tuesday night, Kyle Schwarber had to retrieve a new piece of lumber. He hadn’t expected to replace the bat he shattered in the bottom of the ninth inning …

ATLANTA — What if you went to an All-Star Game and a penalty-kick home-run shootout broke out? Welcome to the 2025 MLB All-Star Game — a game in which the world turned upside-down, the guy who threw the last pitch was a coach, the hitter who took the last swing wasn’t even wearing a cap and the MVP was a …

The National League bested the American League Tuesday night at Truist Park in Atlanta in one of the most entertaining All-Star Games in quite some time. The AL erased a 6-0 deficit in the final three innings, putting them in position for what would have been the largest comeback win in All-Star Game history, but the NL prevailed in the …

ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber was nervous. He had played in Game 7 of the World Series, homered for the United States in the World Baseball Classic. But he had never walked up to the plate in an All-Star Game swing-off. No one had. “That’s kind of like the baseball version of a shootout,” he said after homering on all …

Kyle Schwarber has played in Game 7 of the World Series, and homered for the United States in the World Baseball Classic. But he had never walked up to the plate in an All-Star Game swing-off. No one had. “That’s kind of like the baseball version of a shootout,” he said after homering on all three of his swings, going …

The 2025 MLB All-Star Game was tied 6-6 by the end of the ninth inning. Instead of extra innings, fans got some heroics from Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber. Decided by baseball’s first All-Star swing-off, the National League beat the American League to notch its second ASG win in three years. It’s only the league’s fifth win in 28 years. …

The 2025 MLB All-Star Game was tied 6-6 by the end of the ninth inning. Instead of extra innings, fans got some heroics from Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber. Decided by baseball’s first All-Star swing-off, the National League beat the American League to notch its second ASG win in three years. It’s only the league’s fifth win in 28 years. …

Jorge CastilloJul 16, 2025, 12:08 AM ET Close ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024. ATLANTA — Kyle Schwarber, a man built to smash baseballs over the …

The 2025 MLB All-Star Game was tied 6-6 by the end of the ninth inning. Instead of extra innings, fans got some heroics from Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber. Decided by baseball’s first ever All-Star swing-off, the National League beat the American League in a swing-off to notch its second ASG win in three years. It’s only the league’s fifth …