NL Wins All-Star Game in First Ever Swing-Off

Rosenthal Weighs In on MLB’s Latest Gimmick – and Its Limits

Tuesday night at Truist Park in Atlanta delivered one of the most unpredictable All-Star Games in memor, and not just because of the 6-6 tie after nine innings. For the first time since the tiebreaker rule change in 2022, the game was decided by a dramatic swing-off: an impromptu mini–home-run derby featuring three players from each league, each allotted three swings. This bold rule, born out of the collective bargaining agreement to eliminate m…

What Brendan Donovan learned on All-Star adventure before small role (roll?) in big-league first

For the first time the All-Star Game was decided by a "swing off," Judge romps, but not before Donovan's two-hit All-Star debut and working the clubhouse as a "sponge."

NL wins All-Star Game in first ever swing-off

ATLANTA — Kyle Schwarber went 3 for 3 in the first All-Star Game home run swing-off to put the National League ahead 4-3 following a 6-6 tie in which the American League rallied from a six-run deficit on Tuesday night.

Schwarber's 3 homers in All-Star's first tiebreaking swing-off lifts NL

ATLANTA — Kyle Schwarber was nervous.

Here’s why Yankees’ Aaron Judge, other top sluggers were nowhere to be found during All-Star swing-off

The National League won the 2025 All-Star Game Tuesday night via a swing-off in which three batters from each league took three swings each off coaches.

The All-Star Game's Confusing Ending Fit The Bill For A Confused League

Nobody does self-loathing quite like baseball, so it comes as little surprise that its governing body has yet again veered away fearfully yet violently from its essential product, so it can avoid doing more of the thing it purports to celebrate. There is nothing sacred about the All-Star Game, and nothing really to mourn about the fact that a game that was tied after nine innings didn’t proceed to the tenth. But the fact remains that the Most Va…