Phase 1 of the voting for this year’s All-Star Game is in the home stretch, and Ronald Acuña Jr. (overall leader) and Shohei Ohtani remain the leading vote-getters in the National League and American League, respectively, in our second update of the 2023 Scotts MLB All-Star Ballot.
From now until Phase 1 ends at noon ET on Thursday, you can vote as many as five times per every 24-hour period exclusively at MLB.com, on all 30 MLB club sites and on the MLB app.
Your votes will help decide who will start the 2023 MLB All-Star Game presented by Mastercard on July 11 at T-Mobile Field in Seattle. The leading vote-getter in each league will receive an automatic spot in their team’s starting lineup. Beyond those two players, the top two vote-getters at every position, and the top six outfielders, will advance to Phase 2 of the voting, which begins on Monday. If an outfielder is a league’s leading vote-getter, only the next four outfield finalists will move on to Phase 2 to determine who starts at the two remaining spots.
Victor Wembanyama, the likely No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, visited Yankee Stadium and threw out a first pitch that was juuust a bit outside. What can you expect when a baseball is like a ping pong ball in his hands?
Jo Adell is still slugging away in Triple-A, and this absolutely demolished dinger soared farther than any Major League home run that has been tracked by Statcast.
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