Tonight the best players in the game will take the field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the 2026 Major League Baseball All-Star game. Starting pitcher Chase Burns and infielder Sal Stewart are the two representatives from the Cincinnati Reds that made the National League’s side of things, but Burns will not be playing tonight. Stewart is not in the starting lineup, which is awarded to players who get the most fan votes during the voting process. (If and ) when he will get into the game is unknown, but while many of us will be watching the game for the game itself, getting to see Stewart in the game will be a treat for those tuning in for the purpose of seeing “their guy”.
First pitch is scheduled for 8:00pm ET. But that usually doesn’t happen on time in All-Star games. We’ll all find out together. If you are planning to tune in, the television broadcast is on FOX. If you are more of a radio broadcast listening then you will need to tune in to your local ESPN Radio station.
Starting Lineup
What’s your favorite All-Star game memory? Mine is, funny enough, not a moment that involved a play in the field, but instead something that took place in the batters box. Back in 1993 during the All-Star game Randy Johnson threw a fastball well over the head of John Kruk, who then stood as far back in the batters box as he could for the remainder of the at-bat and struck out flailing at a pitch that was over the plate that Kruk had no chance of reaching with a boat oar because of how far back he was.
But that’s just the set up to a few years later when Johnson was back on the mound and Larry Walker was at the plate. Once again Johnson let loose a pitch that flew far over his head. Walker, a left-handed hitter, then stepped into the right-hnaded batters box and put his helmet on backwards. He returned to the left-handed batters box after the pitch, and he’d eventually walk. But it was just a really fun culmination of events that I think about more than any others in my 40-ish years of watching All-Star games.
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