Key stats and facts from an All-Star Game like no other

The 2025 MLB All-Star Game had it all. Flamethrowing aces lit up the radar gun like never before. Big-time sluggers launched homers. There was a big lead, a big comeback and ninth-inning drama. And it all concluded with a history-making All-Star Game swing-off.

Here is a look at all of the stats and facts you need to know from a thrilling Midsummer Classic at Truist Park.

A first-of-its-kind All-Star Game

• We've never seen an All-Star Game like this. With the game tied, 6-6, after nine innings thanks to the American League's rally in the top of the ninth, the Midsummer Classic was decided by a Home Run Derby-style swing-off for the first time. Three hitters from each league, three swings each. The league with the most total home runs wins.
• The NL triumphed over the AL in the swing-off, with its trio of Kyle Stowers, Kyle Schwarber and Pete Alonso outhomering the AL trio of Brent Rooker, Randy Arozarena and Jonathan Aranda, 4-3. The result goes down as a 7-6 All-Star Game win for the NL, its second victory in three years following nine straight for the AL. (The AL still leads, 48-45-2, all time.)
• Schwarber was the hero of the "Derby," crushing home runs on all three of his swings to carry the NL past the AL. The Phillies slugger was named All-Star Game MVP -- the second Phillies player to win MVP honors since the award was first given out in 1962, joining Johnny Callison in 1964. Thanks to Schwarber, Alonso -- a two-time Home Run Derby champion -- never even had to bat in the swing-off, because the NL had already clinched the win before his turn came up.

• The AL's comeback just to force a swing-off was a first. No team had previously erased a six-run deficit during an All-Star Game, which is what the American League faced when it was down, 6-0, at the end of the sixth inning. But the AL scored four runs in the seventh and two in the ninth to force the swing-off tiebreaker.

• The 2025 All-Star Game also brought the first use of the ABS challenge system in a Midsummer Classic -- where a batter, pitcher or catcher can challenge a ball or strike call using Hawk-Eye's tracking technology. AL starting pitcher Tarik Skubal successfully challenged a call in the first inning to get a strikeout of Manny Machado -- his changeup was called low but actually clipped the bottom of the strike zone.

Aces bring the heat

• Paul Skenes, the National League's starting pitcher, set a new record for the fastest strikeout by an All-Star Game starter in the pitch-tracking era (since 2008) with his 100.3 mph K of Riley Greene in the first inning. That broke … his own record, set one batter earlier. Skenes' 99.7 mph fastball to strike out Gleyber Torres to open the All-Star Game was also faster than any previous K by an All-Star Game starting pitcher under pitch tracking, surpassing a 99.5 mph K by Max Scherzer in 2013.
• The Pirates ace became the first pitcher, and one of five players total, to start the All-Star Game in each of his first two big league seasons. The four position players are Ichiro Suzuki, Rod Carew, Frank Robinson and Joe DiMaggio. Skenes is also the first pitcher to start back-to-back All-Star Games since Scherzer (2017-18) and Chris Sale (2016-18).

• Skubal, the Tigers ace and reigning AL Cy Young Award winner, also had a 99.6 mph K of Will Smith in the bottom of the first that would have broken Scherzer’s record for an All-Star starter … if Skenes hadn’t done it already in the top of the first.
• Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski, pitching in the All-Star Game after just five career big league games -- the fewest ever for a first-time All-Star -- also let his fastball rip. The Miz reached triple digits nine times and topped out at 102.3 mph. Misiorowski became one of just four pitchers to hit 102-plus mph in an All-Star Game in the pitch tracking era, along with Mason Miller, Aroldis Chapman and Ryan Helsley. And only Chapman in 2015 has thrown more 100-plus mph pitches in a single All-Star Game (13).

‘Legend Pick’ Kershaw rises up the ranks

• Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw came to the All-Star Game as a “Legend Pick” by Commissioner Rob Manfred. He entered the game in the second inning, and in stark contrast to the three pitchers mentioned above, didn’t touch 90 mph on any of his six pitches. However, Kershaw retired both batters he faced, including striking out Vladimir Guerrero Jr. looking on a nasty slider.
• Kershaw was pitching in his eighth career All-Star Game, which is tied for the third most all time. The only pitchers to make more appearances in All-Star Games are Roger Clemens (10) and Mariano Rivera (nine). Along with Kershaw, Randy Johnson, Tom Seaver, Juan Marichal, Don Drysdale and Jim Bunning also pitched in eight.

Long ASG HR droughts end

• In the bottom of the sixth inning, Corbin Carroll ripped a home run into the right field seats, becoming the first player in D-backs history -- since the franchise’s inception in 1998 -- to homer in the All-Star Game.
• Just four batters later, in the top of the seventh, Brent Rooker of the A’s pinch-hit and walloped a three-run shot off Giants reliever Randy Rodríguez (who allowed just one homer in 41 2/3 innings before the break). Rooker became only the fourth A’s player to go deep in the ASG and the first since Terry Steinbach in 1988.
• The D-backs had been the only one of the 30 teams without an All-Star Game big fly, while the A’s had the longest active drought. Then, in rapid succession, both ended. The longest active ASG homer drought now belongs to the Nationals/Expos franchise, which last had a representative go deep when Marquis Grissom did so for Montreal in 1994. Next in line are the Marlins (1995, Jeff Conine) and Padres (1996, Ken Caminiti). Every other club has now gotten one since 2000.

All-Stars bring out the bats

• Prior to Tuesday, the NL last scored 6+ runs in 2018, but that required the game going to extra innings. They last did it through the first nine innings of a game in 2012 (won 8-0), and the last time before that was 2003 (lost 7-6).
• The teams’ 12 combined runs was the most through nine innings of an All-Star Game since the AL’s 7-5 win in 2005. Meanwhile, the last time both teams scored at least six runs through nine was the AL’s 7-6 victory in 2003.
• Ketel Marte is the first D-backs player with multiple RBIs in an All-Star Game. Marte’s first-inning double off of Skubal was hit at an exit velocity of 109.6 mph -- the hardest-hit ball in this year’s All-Star Game, excluding the swing-off. Marte also had the hardest-hit ball of last year’s All-Star Game, via a 109.5 mph single off of Boston’s Tanner Houck. He recorded his hits from different sides of the plate: His single in 2024 came as a left-handed batter, while his double in this year’s game came as a right-handed hitter.

• Brent Rooker not only ripped the A’s first All-Star Game homer in 37 years but also became the first player since Alex Bregman in 2018 to participate in the Home Run Derby and homer in the All-Star Game in the same season. Eighteen players have now accomplished the feat since the first Derby in 1985, but only Bregman and Rooker have done so since 2011 (done that year by Adrián González and Prince Fielder).
• The A’s star proceeded to hit two MORE homers during the All-Star Tiebreaker, going deep on his second and third swings. Between Monday and Tuesday in Atlanta, Rooker totaled 20 home runs.

• Pete Alonso, who hit a three-run home run in the sixth inning, is the third Mets player to hit a home run in the All-Star Game, joining Lee Mazzilli (1979) and David Wright (2006).
• Pete Crow-Armstrong, who doubled in the second inning, is the first player age 23 or younger to get an extra-base hit in his first career All-Star at-bat since the Rays’ Evan Longoria doubled off Billy Wagner in 2008.
• Brendan Donovan was the only player with multiple hits. He became the first Cardinal with multiple hits in the All-Star Game since Albert Pujols in 2008 and the third St. Louis player to do so as a reserve, joining Keith Hernandez (1980) and Tim McCarver (1967).