What time and channel is the All-Star baseball game?

MLB’s All-Star game is almost upon us and with that we’ve got all you need to know about how and when you can watch, as well as how to get yourself tickets!

MLB’s All-Star Game is here

Major League Baseball’s ‘Midsummer Classic’ is set to be heated this year with some of the brightest stars in today’s game. Indeed, the 2022 AL vs NL battle includes some show stoppers such as Los Angeles Dodgers star Mookie Betts, New York Yankees heavy hitter Aaron Judge and the Atlanta Braves’ Ronald Acuna Jr. to name a few. Where the dugout is concerned, it’s going to be a rematch of last fall’s World Series with Brian Snitker of the reigning champs Atlanta Braves managing the NL squad, while Dusty Baker, who saw his Houston Astros lost to the Braves, will direct the American League team.

When and where is the MLB All-Star Game?

Scheduled for Tuesday, Tuesday July 19th, the MLB All-Star Game comes just four days after the official start of MLB All-Star Week which gets off and running on Friday, July 15th. The game itself is of course just one of the events in a series of events that are being held across the host city. As for what city that is, the 2022 MLB All-Star Game is set to be played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Interestingly it will be the first time that the famous game is being held at MLB’s third oldest stadium since 1980.

How to watch the 2022 MLB All-Star Game?

If you’re planning on watching the 2022 MLB All-Star Game, then you might want to prepare your snacks and drinks in the early afternoon, so that you can be in front the TV for live coverage starting on Fox or ESPN at 7:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, July 19th. If you’d prefer to stream then you can find the big game on Direct TV, Hulu, FuboTV and Sling. Also be sure to check in with us here on AS USA, as we will be bringing you our live text coverage.

Where to get tickets to the 2022 MLB All-Star Game

To date the cheapest tickets you will find for the 2022 MLB All-Star Game, will run you approximately $375 - before taxes - and you can find those here. If you’d like to be closer to the action, which is to say near to or directly behind home plate, then you’re looking at a price in the realm of $1,000 with field level. Home plate itself will cost you close to $6000 in case you’re wondering. There are of course third-party ticket vendors such as the well-known StubHub and Ticket Smarter in case you’d like to try another source.

Major League Baseball’s stars of the American and National Leagues will fave off in the 2022 All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, July 19 (7/19/2022) at 8 p.m. ET.

The All-Star Game will be broadcast on FOX, and can be streamed live on DirecTV Stream, fuboTV and other live TV services.

While superstars will pack the lineup on both sides, some notable players are absent due to injury, including the Angels’ Mike Trout, Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and Bryce Harper, of the Phillies.

The American League has won the All-Star Game for eight years running, and have lost just three times since 1996. This might be the National League’s year to break the streak though, with oddsmakers giving them a slight edge to win.

Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw will be the starting pitcher for the National League, while MLB ERA leader Shane McClanahan of the Rays will start for the American League.

Here’s how to watch.

What: MLB All-Star Game

Who: American League vs. National League

When: Tuesday, July 19

Where: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, California

Time: 8 p.m. ET

TV: FOX, FOX 4K

Channel finder: Verizon Fios, XFinity, Spectrum, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DirecTV, Dish

Live stream: DirecTV Stream, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, YouTube TV

Cable subscribers can log in to FOX.com or associated apps with their cable credentials to enjoy a FREE live stream of the game.

Cord cutters can sign up for free trials of fuboTV, DirecTV Stream and YouTube TV to enjoy free broadcasts for a limited time.

The full day of TV coverage includes:

• MLB Red Carpet All-Star Show, 2 p.m. on MLB Network
• MLB All-Star Batting Practice, 5 p.m. on MLB Network
• MLB All-Star Game, 8 p.m. on FOX, FOX 4K
• MLB All-Star postgame show, 11 p.m. on MLB Network

Can I bet on the All-Star Game?

Mobile sports betting is now legal in New York, which means you can now bet on MLB from your phone. We’ve compiled some of the best introductory offers to help navigate your first bets from BetMGM, FanDuel, DraftKings, PointsBet, Caesars Sportsbook and BetRivers.

DraftKings has the American League as the slight underdogs at -105, while the National League are -115.

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Story by The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pete Alonso was in the visitors’ clubhouse at Truist Park last week when an attendant made a puzzling request: Would the New York Mets slugger take a call from Atlanta Braves skipper Brian Snitker?

“Why is the opposing manager calling me?” Alonso recalled thinking.

He quickly found out. Snitker was preparing to manage the National League All-Star squad and had an important question, based on a first-time, fan-friendly rule change.

If the score was even after nine innings in the All-Star Game on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium, Snitker asked, would Alonso participate in the new tiebreaking Home Run Derby that would decide the winning team?

“I’ll be your guy,” Alonso recalled telling him. “I think it’s fun. I think it’s going to be a great event if that does happen.”

Alonso wasn’t aware of the novel format, in which three players from each league would take three swings apiece to decide the final result. He wasn’t alone in finding out what could be on deck.

“That would actually happen?” Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said. “This is news to me.”

Snitker also picked Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. and Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for NL, while Houston’s Dusty Baker selected Seattle’s Julio Rodríguez and Ty France along with Houston’s Kyle Tucker for the AL.

With the All-Star Home Run Derby always popular the night before the game, Major League Baseball decided to make a slugging showcase part of the Midsummer Classic.

And no doubt, now a lot of fans will be rooting for a tie, just to see another launch of longballs.

Players, too.

“Are they doing that? That would be fun,” Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “We got Pete Alonso and Ronald, so I like our chances.”

The provision paving the way to the innovation was buried in exhibit 13 of the memorandum of understanding that settled the MLB lockout in March 10.

Alonso has 24 home runs, third in the NL, and had won the Home Run Derby two straight times going into Monday’s competition.

The rules of the tiebreaker, obtained by The Associated Press on Monday, state “the manager of each league’s All-Star team shall select three players on his team’s active roster who have agreed to participate in the All-Star tiebreaker, if applicable; one alternate player from his active roster who has agreed to participate in the All-Star tiebreaker, if necessary due to injury to a tiebreaker selection; an All-Star team coach who will throw batting practice during the All-Star tiebreaker; and an All-Star team bullpen catcher who will catch during the All-Star tiebreaker.”

Play would be paused briefly after the ninth inning “to allow the grounds crew to reconfigure the field in an arrangement suitable for the tiebreaker.”

In the tiebreaker, “each player can take an unlimited number of pitches without it counting against their swing total. Players on each team may hit in any order during the All-Star tiebreaker; provided, however, the batters from each team shall alternate.”

As the visiting team, the AL would send a hitter to bat first, and players from each league would alternate.

“Once all six tiebreaker selections have completed their swings, the team with the most home runs shall be declared the winner of the All-Star Game,” the rules state. “In the event the teams have the same number of home runs following the tiebreaker, each manager shall select one tiebreaker selection to participate in another round in which the tiebreaker selection from each team takes three swings to break the tie. The aforementioned head-to-head format will continue until the tie is broken.”

The three batters picked by a league for the tiebreaker cannot be replaced unless injured or to protect player health.

The All-Star Game has gone to extra innings 13 times since it began in 1933, the last two times 10 innings in both 2017 at Miami and 2018 at Washington. Teams running short on pitchers has become an issue as managers try to get most pitchers in the game by the ninth inning, and the 2002 game at Milwaukee ended a 7-7, 11-inning tie when there were no available pitchers left.

A couple years ago, MLB was set to try out the automatic runner on second base if the All-Star Game went to the extra innings.

Thanks to Snitker, Alonso was ready to swing away in a new way of deciding who wins the All-Star Game.

“He had to tell me about the Home Run Derby stuff, because I didn’t know about it,” Alonso said.