Logan Webb’s 2024 MLB All-Star Game appearance didn’t go as planned. This year, he was just about the only one who had a straightforward performance at the 2025 MLB All-Star Game on Tuesday in Atlanta.
The San Francisco Giants right-handed ace earned his first All-Star selection last season and pitched the third inning in Arlington, Texas, surrendering three runs in his debut and squandering a three-run lead for the National League.
Things went a little bit better for Webb the second time around. He redeemed himself at this year’s contest held at Truist Park, navigating a leadoff single to pitch a scoreless third inning for the NL.
The National League looked poised to earn an easy win, but things didn’t follow the script for the senior circuit in the late innings. The American League mounted the biggest comeback in All-Star Game history, erasing a six-run deficit to force a 6-6 tie.
Washington-Fremont High grad Steven Kwan of the Cleveland Guardians entered the game as a defensive replacement in the sixth inning and had the key hit in the top of the ninth, running out an infield single to drive in the tying run.
Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker, whose three-run home run off Giants reliever Randy Rodriguez cut the AL’s deficit in half in the seventh inning, led off the tiebreaking home run derby with two home runs in three swings.
Stanford alum Kyle Stowers of the Miami Marlins was next up for the NL, hitting one homer in his trio of swings. Teammate Kyle Schwarber of the Philadelphia Phillies picked him up, hitting home runs on all three of his swings to clinch a 4-3 derby win for the National League and win the most valuable player award.
Rodriguez, making his All-Star debut, inherited two runners in the seventh inning as well as some of Webb’s first-time bad luck. Rooker hit the third pitch and first fastball he saw from Rodriguez to left field, cutting the American League’s 6-0 deficit to three.
Rodriguez conceded one more run in the inning and recorded two outs, finishing with two earned runs allowed. He would have finished the inning, but former A’s first baseman Matt Olson couldn’t make a play on a hard ground ball hit right at him by Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees.
Olson struck out looking during his lone at-bat in the seventh, stranding runners on second and third for the NL. He did made a strong play in the top of the ninth, snagging a one-hop rocket from Chisholm to temporarily strand Bobby Witt Jr., the eventual tying run, on third base.
Giants pitcher Robbie Ray did not pitch in the game after starting against the Dodgers on Sunday in San Francisco.
Many other players with Bay Area connections made appearances in the All-Star showcase.
Alameda High alum Bryan Woo of the Seattle Mariners pitched a perfect 1-2-3 inning for the AL in the third.
Like Webb last year, Archbishop Mitty-San Jose High alumnus and Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Kris Bubic endured a rough outing in his ASG debut, allowing three runs and recording just one out in the sixth inning. The big hit Bubic surrendered was a three-run opposite-field home run by Pete Alonso of the Mets.
Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson started the game at shortstop for the American League and batted ninth, flying out to left field off Webb and grounding out in his other at-bat.
Detroit Tigers pitcher and Hayward native Tarik Skubal started the game for the AL and struggled out of the gate, giving up two runs in the first inning on weakly hit singles by Shohei Ohtani and Ronald Acuna Jr. and a double down the right-field line by Ketel Marte.
Longtime Giants nemesis Clayton Kershaw pitched the second for the National League and retired each of the two batters he faced. Kershaw, who was an All-Star selection by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred ahead of his anticipated retirement, was pulled mid-inning to a standing ovation.
Former Giants starter Carlos Rodon pitched a scoreless second for the AL, conceding a double to Pete Crow-Armstrong.
Former Giants prospect Zack Wheeler, the centerpiece of San Francisco’s 2011 trade for Carlos Beltran and the NL Cy Young favorite, was in line to start the game but did not appear after deciding to rest his arm for a second-half run with the Philadelphia Phillies. Neither did Matthew Boyd, a Cubs reliever who signed with the Giants in 2022 but never pitched for San Francisco as he recovered from forearm flexor tendon surgery.
