MLB All-Star Game live updates: Biggest moments, performances in Seattle
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2023 All-Star Game in Seattle
Seattle’s T-Mobile Park is the focus of the baseball world this week as MLB’s top players gather for the 2023 All-Star Game. The TNT sports staff brings you all the action.
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The 2023 MLB All-Star Game is going down Tuesday at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT. It will be televised on FOX. Follow here for updates, visuals and analysis of some of the game’s biggest moments, handpicked by The News Tribune’s sports crew.
STARTING LINEUPS
New York Yankees right-hander Gerrit Cole and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen were named as the starting pitchers for their respective rosters.
AL STARTERS
- Marcus Semien, 2B, Texas
- Shohei Ohtani, DH, Angels
- Randy Arozarena, LF, Tampa Bay
- Corey Seager, SS, Texas
- Yandy Díaz, 1B, Tampa Bay
- Adolis Garcia, RF, Texas
- Austin Hays, CF, Baltimore
- Josh Jung, 3B, Texas
- Jonah Heim, C, Texas
NL STARTERS
- Ronald Acuña Jr., RF, Atlanta
- Freddie Freeman, 1B, Dodgers
- Mookie Betts, CF, Dodgers
- J.D. Martinez, DH, Dodgers
- Nolan Arenado, 3B, St. Louis
- Luis Arraez, 2B, Miami
- Sean Murphy, C, Atlanta
- Corbin Carroll, LF, Arizona
- Orlando Arcia, SS, Atlanta
Outside the ball park
The sun-backed crowds were swarming around downtown beginning Tuesday morning with the uniquely Seattle red carpet event at historic Pike Place Market six hours before first pitch.
Fans flocked under a brilliant Northwest sun on a blue-sky afternoon into the SoDo stadiums area. By car wasn’t such a great idea. Not only was I-5 it’s usual mess, parking spots as far away as Union Station on the northeast side of the Seahawks’ and Sounders’ Lumen Field, blocks from T-Mobile Park, was $100 per spot.
Light rail and public transit were the ways to go. Train cars on the 1 line into the stadiums area were packed but lively and cordial. Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell had announced Thursday all passengers, All-Star fans or not, would ride free on King County Metro bus and Sound Transit trains Monday and Tuesday.
Supporting the A’s remaining in Oakland
This, intended for A’s owner John Fisher and MLB commissioner Rob Manfed, just beyond the left-field stands along Royal Brougham Way:
GAME HIGHLIGHTS
▪ The AL All-Star team made back-to-back highlight-reel catches at the wall for the first two outs of Tuesday night’s midsummer classic. Two pitches into the top of the first, Braves outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. sent a sharp liner toward the wall in right, but Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia snagged the fly ball at the wall to save extra bases.
Five pitches later, Rays outfielder Randy Arozarena made leaping catch at the fence in left on a long fly from Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman drawing roars from the crowd.
▪ Fans around T-Mobile Park started to cheer “Come to Seattle” during Angels star Shohei Ohtani’s first at-bat in the bottom of the first inning. Ohtani is set to become a free agent at the end of the 2023 season.
▪ Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz put the AL team on the board first in the second inning, sending the second pitch he saw from Pittsburgh’s Mitch Keller over the fence in left for a 383-foot home run to make it 1-0.
▪ George Kirby believes he “couldn’t have asked for a better situation.” In front of his home crowd, Seattle’s budding star became the fourth Mariners player to pitch in an All-Star Game in Seattle, throwing the entire fourth inning in front of a sellout crowd at T-Mobile Park.
The 25-year-old surrendered a run on two hits, the first a bloop double by Dodgers’ J.D. Martinez that fell lazily into left field. He later scored on a single by Luis Arraez.
“I had family and friends here… it was really cool,” Kirby said. “It was really special.”
Martinez found Kirby’s two-strike curveball and lifted it just over AL third baseman Josh Jung, out of reach.
“I don’t know why I threw a curveball there,” Kirby said, as the group of reporters chuckled. “Should’ve (thrown) a heater.”
Still, Kirby induced a groundout by eight-time All-Star Nolan Arenado, and benefited by another magnificent leaping catch in right field by Adolis Garcia for the second out.
The frame ended abruptly when an American League challenge nullified a stolen-base attempt by Arraez. He was indeed out on a rocket throw by Rangers backstop Jonah Heim.
Kirby exited, the damage limited to a single run and the game still tied. And he flirted with triple-digits; through five innings of play, he owned the game’s five fastest pitches.
Much of the sellout crowd at T-Mobile Park (Mariners fans, at least) rose to congratulate Kirby for his accomplishment and effort.
“I’m still taking it all in,” he said. “I’m just glad I (pitched) my first (All-Star Game) in front of Seattle fans.”
▪ Marlins second baseman Luis Arraez singled to right to score the first run for the NL in the top of the fourth, driving in Dodgers’ designated hitter JD Martinez, who doubled to left off Mariners starter George Kirby to lead off the frame, and tying the game at 1-1.
▪ Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette drove in a run to put the AL team back in front, 2-1, in the sixth, sending a sac fly to right to score Kansas City’s Salvador Perez. Perez singled to right earlier in the frame and advanced to third on a ground-rule double from Oakland’s Brent Rooker.
▪ What was initially called a home run to left by Diamondbacks outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. with one out in the top of the seventh, and would have evened the score again at 2-2, was overturned and ruled a foul ball after official review.
▪ Colorado’s Elias Diaz gave the NL team its first lead of the game an inning later in the eighth, entering as a pinch hitter and crushing a two-run home run to left off Baltimore’s Felix Bautista to make it 3-2. Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos, who walked to lead off the frame, also scored.
▪ The NL team took a late 3-2 lead in the eighth, then held on in the ninth to earn an All-Star Game victory for the first time since 2012 at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, snapping a nine-game winning streak for the AL side.
Both Astros outfielder Kyle Tucker and Mariners outfielder Julio Rodriguez drew back-to-back two-out walks against Philadelphia’s Craig Kimbrel in the ninth, but Kimbrel struck out Cleveland’s Jose Ramirez to end the game and earn a save.
▪ Rockies catcher Elias Diaz, who gave the NL the decisive lead with a two-run home run in the eighth inning in his first All-Star Game appearance, was named the game’s MVP.
Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr., who was named the MVP the last time the All-Star Game was played in Seattle in 2001, presented the award.
This story was originally published July 11, 2023 at 4:21 PM with the headline "MLB All-Star Game live updates: Biggest moments, performances in Seattle."
