Starting lineups, pitchers announced for 2025 All-Star Game Presented by Mastercard

Atlanta, GA – Earlier today, the 2025 All-Star Game managers, Dave Roberts of the National League and Aaron Boone of the American League, announced their starting lineups for Baseball’s 95^th Midsummer Classic, to be played on Tuesday at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia. The lineups were announced at this afternoon’s 2025 All-Star Game Press Conference, which was carried live by MLB Network.

Roberts’ NL lineup will be:

Roberts has selected right-handed pitcher Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates as the NL’s starting pitcher. Skenes, who also started last year’s Midsummer Classic as a rookie, will become the 10^th NL pitcher, and the first Pirates hurler, to make consecutive All-Star Game starts. Overall, the 23-year-old will be the first pitcher to make consecutive Midsummer Classic starts since 2018, when Washington’s Max Scherzer started for a second straight time and Boston’s Chris Sale made his third start in a row for the AL. Skenes will also become the second Pirates player to start consecutive All-Star Games along with teammate Andrew McCutchen (2014-15). The California native and product of Louisiana State University has a 2.01 ERA across 20 starts in 2025. In 121.0 innings pitched, Skenes has allowed just 27 earned runs on 82 hits with 30 walks and 131 strikeouts. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Skenes will be the first pitcher and one of only five Major Leaguers ever to start in the All-Star Game in each of his first two big league seasons, joining Hall of Famers Joe DiMaggio (first seven seasons, 1936-42); Rod Carew (first three seasons, 1967-69); and Frank Robinson (first two seasons, 1956-57); and 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee Ichiro Suzuki (first four seasons, 2001-04). Skenes is one of five different pitchers in Pirates history to start the Midsummer Classic (seventh time overall), joining Bob Friend (1956, 1960 – Game 1); Vern Law (1960 – Game 2); Dock Ellis (1971); and Jerry Reuss (1975).

Boone’s AL lineup will be:

Boone has chosen reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers as the AL’s starting pitcher. The left-hander is 10-3 with a 2.23 ERA across 19 starts on the season. In 121.0 innings pitched, Skubal has permitted 30 runs on 84 hits with just 16 walks and 153 strikeouts. The 28-year-old will become the ninth Tigers pitcher (12^th time overall) to start the Midsummer Classic, joining Hall of Famer Hal Newhouser (1947); Hall of Famer Jim Bunning (1957, 1961-62); Denny McLain (1966); Mark Fidrych (1976); Hall of Famer Jack Morris (1981, 1985); Kenny Rogers (2006); Justin Verlander (2012); and Max Scherzer (2013). Skubal’s start will mark the 16^th by a reigning Cy Young Award winner in the Midsummer Classic, including the first since Scherzer started the 2018 All-Star Game after capturing the 2017 NL Cy Young Award, and the first by an AL starter since Verlander in 2012 after winning the 2011 AL Cy Young Award. With four Tigers in the starting lineup, this marks the first time since the 2019 Astros (Michael Brantley, Alex Bregman, George Springer and Verlander) in which a team had four players, including the starting pitcher, start the All-Star Game. The 2025 Midsummer Classic will be the first to feature starting pitchers from the Pirates and the Tigers squaring off against one another.

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