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Where is the 2019 Major League Baseball All-Star Game?

By Joe Smeltzer | Last updated 7/23/19

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been a summer tradition since 1933. The first game finished in grand fashion, with Babe Ruth hitting the winning home run for the American League at Comiskey Park in Chicago. The AL won again in 1934, despite a standout performance by National League starting pitcher Carl Hubbell. A future Hall of Famer, Hubbell struck out five stars in order: Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin.

The 2019 All-Star Game is scheduled Tuesday, July 9at Progressive Field, home of the Cleveland Indians.

How many MLB All-Star Games have been played in Cleveland?

This will be the sixth time the Indians have hosted the All-Star Game, the most of any organization in baseball. It will be only the second time, however, the event has come to Progressive Field. The last time the game was in Cleveland (1997) the stadium was called Jacobs Field. The American League won 3-1, and the New York Yankees' 27-year-old closer, Mariano Rivera, got the save. Rivera will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 21, 2019.

What events are held in conjunction with the MLB All-Star Game?

Like all-star games in other sports, Major League Baseball dedicates multiple days to All-Star Game festivities. This started in 1985 with the Home Run Derby, now an All-Star Game tradition. MLB has also added other events, including the Celebrity All-Star Game and Futures Game, a matchup of young players in the American and National Leagues.

Joe Smeltzer has more than a decade of journalistic experience, starting when he was a sophomore in high school with his blog, Smeltzer on Sports. Since then, he’s earned a degree in communication (with an emphasis on journalism) from Waynesburg University, where he worked on the student newspaper for all four years, eventually becoming sports web editor. Joe began contributing for Yardbarker in the summer of 2019, the same year he became a stringer for the Observer-Reporter in Washington, Pennsylvania, where he still contributes to local high school sports coverage. He is also a Penn State athletics beat reporter for Nittany Sports Now, under the Pittsburgh Sports Now umbrella. In two and a half years on the Penn State beat, Joe’s mainly covered football, wrestling and men’s basketball and covered prime events such as the 2023 Rose Bowl and 2024 U.S. Olympic wrestling trials.

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