{"id":432990,"date":"2026-08-14T18:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432990\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:16:15","slug":"major-league-baseball-to-hold-2028-all-star-game-at-san-franciscos-oracle-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432990\/","title":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball to Hold 2028 All-Star Game at San Francisco\u2019s Oracle Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game will bring baseball\u2019s biggest stars to the Bay Area, days before the 2028 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n<p>Aug 14, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Updated 11:02 am PT<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2289632405.jpg\"  alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hunter Brown of the Houston Astros pitches during the game between the Houston Astros and the San Francisco Giants at Oracle Park on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026 in San Francisco, California. Oracle Park will host the event for the first time in more than 20 years.\u00a0(Bryan Kennedy\/MLB Photos via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/tag\/san-francisco-giants\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> will host the 2028 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, bringing yet another major sporting event to the Bay Area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Mayor Daniel Lurie and the league announced Friday that baseball\u2019s biggest summer showcase will be played at Oracle Park for the first time in more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to welcome the Midsummer Classic to San Francisco, the ultimate celebration of Major League Baseball and one of our game\u2019s greatest annual traditions,\u201d the Giants said in a statement. \u201cThis is a tremendous opportunity to showcase our organization, our city, and the incredible passion of our fans on baseball\u2019s biggest summer stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2208881091.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12090146\"  \/>Mike Yastrzemski and Heliot Ramos of the San Francisco Giants celebrate after Yastrzemski hit a three-run home run against the Seattle Mariners in the bottom of the fourth inning at Oracle Park on April 6, 2025, in San Francisco, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">The annual contest will feature the top players in Major League Baseball on July 12, 2028 \u2014 days before the 2028 Summer Olympics open in Los Angeles, where baseball returns for the first time since 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Whether the Giants would be selected to host the year\u2019s All-Star Game had reportedly been tied to whether MLB players would be allowed to participate in the 2028 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blocks-v1-Paragraph-__Paragraph__paragraph wp-block wp-block-paragraph container\">Historically, the league has not allowed its stars to compete in the Olympics due to concerns about disrupting a packed summer schedule and injury risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The game will bring baseball\u2019s biggest stars to the Bay Area, days before the 2028 Summer Olympics open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-432990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}