The Rockies will host the 2021 All-Star Game on July 13, according to MLB. The 91st Midsummer Classic will be held for the second time at Coors Field. The World Series may be baseball's final litmus test, but he'll have greater competition in the All-Star Game. With so many dominant pitchers in today's game, teams must rely on their hitters to win games. Who are this year's All-Stars? Find out here!
American League: Boston Red Sox first baseman Josh Donaldson, Cleveland Indians third baseman Mike Trout, Seattle Mariners outfielder Bryce Harper, Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Victor Cruz, New York Yankees third baseman Evan Longoria.
National League: Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Manny Machado, Chicago Cubs second baseman Daniel Murphy, San Diego Padres catcher Yasmani Grandal, Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, Atlanta Braves first baseman Paul Goldschmidt.
America's Team wins again! The American League won its fourth consecutive All-Star Game last month in Houston with José Altuve of the Astros taking home the MVP award.
Will José Altuve become the first player to win the MVP Award three years in a row? He has a good chance of doing so.
The Rocky Mountains The 2021 MLB All-Star Game will be held in LoDo! On Tuesday, July 13 at 6 p.m. MT on FOX and FoxSports GO, the Rockies will welcome MLB's top talents at Coors Field. This will be the 91st All-Star Event in MLB history, and the first since 2019 owing to the cancellation of the 2020 game due to the coronavirus.
The NL has a 3-2 lead in the all-star game series with two games left to play. The last time out, the National League won 4-1 at Citi Field.
The Dodgers, who were supposed to host the game and related celebrations, will instead host the next available Midsummer Classic in 2022. Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, will host the 2021 All-Star Game. The venue is expected to be selected by the Major League Baseball All-Star Game Selection Committee.
The 2020 All-Star Game will be played at St. Louis' Olympic Stadium on July 14th. The Cardinals won the bidding process to host the event by offering to build a new stadium with private funds - rather than using tax dollars like last time - while the city of St. Louis will use some of that money to renovate its own baseball park. The Red Sox also wanted to host but they didn't have enough votes to compete with St. Louis.
The NL's 2-1 win on Tuesday, June 17th, 2020, ensured that it will be hosting the 80th All-Star Game. The game will be held at Washington's Nationals Park on July 13th, 2020.
The AL has hosted the game every year except 2013 when the Bostons hosted due to the Boston Marathon Bombing that year.
The 2021 MLB All-Star Game, which will conclude the All-Star weekend, is set to begin at 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 13. The first pitch is expected to be thrown sometime after 8:00 p.m. ET, since pre-game festivities and All-Star announcements will take up a significant amount of time. The game itself will be televised live by Fox and can be heard in its entirety online at allstarpage.com.
The final score of the game is not expected to matter. Instead, this year's All-Star Game will be played for the Save Award - given to the player who saves the most All-Star Games over his or her career. Brad Pitt has won the award twice before, so this is certainly something to watch for.
In addition to being played on the same day as the World Baseball Classic tournament finals in Japan, the length of this year's All-Star break means that regular season games scheduled for July 12 and 13 have been postponed in an effort to give players more time with their families during this difficult time. A new date has not yet been announced, but it is expected that they will be played at some point during the second half of the season. In the meantime, we wish everyone health and happiness.
The Colorado Rockies hosted the game on July 13, 2021, at Coors Field, and the American League (AL) defeated the National League (NL) 5-2. The American League won their ninth consecutive All-Star Game.
| Position | 2B |
|---|---|
| Player | Ozzie Albies |
| Team | Braves |
| All-Star Games | 2 |
During the shorter 2020 MLB season, there will be no All-Star Game, marking the first time since 1945 that the Midsummer Classic will not be played. The game was postponed from July 9 to August 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused major league teams and players to suspend their seasons.
The last time there was no All-Star Game was in 1945. At that time, the National League had six all-stars while the American League had only four. It wasn't until 1951 that both leagues had five all-stars each. Since then, it has been held every year except 2004 (when it was canceled because of terrorist attacks on September 11) and 2019 (when it was canceled because of the coronavirus outbreak).
The 2020 MLB All-Star Game will be played on Tuesday, August 4. The game will be held at Progressive Field in Cleveland instead of its usual site at CitiField in New York City. The American League won this year's game 3-1.
There have been two years where there has been no World Series. In 1919, when baseball was still recovering from World War I, the Series was not played because of financial problems with the owners.
Major League Baseball's All-Star Game will not be contested in 2020 for the first time since World War II owing to health concerns caused by the COVID-19 epidemic, the league stated on Friday. The game was scheduled to be played on July 9 at Nationals Park in Washington.
A replacement game has yet to be announced. The last time the All-Star Game was cancelled was April 17-18, 1939 due to the onset of World War II. The event was not held from 1941 to 1945 while Major League players were engaged in the Sports Legends Museum exhibition tour and baseball games were held in their place.
The All-Star Game returned in 1946 with 2 hours and 15 minutes of playing time instead of its usual length of three hours. It was not played again until 1951 when it resumed its regular length of three hours.
From 1952-1990, the All-Star Game was played only if there was a world championship title being decided. If so, then the National League won the game every time except in 1955 when it was canceled because of labor problems. In 1991, the Midsummer Classic was made an annual event again.
In 2020, the All-Star Game was supposed to be the final contest of the 2019 Major League Baseball season which was postponed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Tampa Bay Rays are the only team that has yet to host an All-Star Game. Every year, the locations have rotated between the American and National Leagues, with an AL team hosting in an odd-numbered year and an NL team hosting in an even-numbered year.
The first All-Star Game tie occurred on July 31, 1961, at Fenway Park in Boston, when the game was called 1-1 after nine innings due to rain; the only previous rain-shortened game was in 1952, when the National League defeated the American League 3-2 in five innings.
The 2008 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 79th midseason exhibition between the all-stars of Major League Baseball's two leagues, the American League (AL) and the National League (NL). The game began at 8:47 p.m. ET on July 15, 2008, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York City, home of the New York Yankees.
During the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in St. Louis in 2009. The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, often known as the "Midsummer Classic," is an annual professional baseball game sanctioned by Major League Baseball (MLB) that pits the All-Stars of the American League (AL) against the All-Stars of the National League (NL).
The Tampa Bay Rays are the only team that has yet to host an All-Star Game. Every year, the locations have rotated between the American and National Leagues, with an AL team hosting in an odd-numbered year and an NL team hosting in an even-numbered year.
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