Major League Baseball awarded the 2028 All-Star Game to San Francisco on Friday, hoping that the Midsummer Classic can be part of a two-part West Coast baseball bonanza that July.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Summer Olympics are scheduled for July 14-30, 2028, and baseball will be included as a medal sport. Players have expressed strong interest in taking part, and while MLB and the union must reach an agreement on the specifics of player participation, staging the All-Star Game in San Francisco helps ease logistics.<\/p>\n
Making it official now \u2014 before an expected lockout when the current collective bargaining agreement expires Dec. 1 \u2014 could be a sign that Olympic participation will not be a point of contention in negotiations. Both sides seem eager to take advantage of the Olympics\u2019 platform to help grow the sport.<\/p>\n
As for the Giants, it\u2019s simply their turn. The other West Coast MLB cities \u2014 Anaheim, Los Angeles, San Diego and Seattle \u2014 have all hosted more recently than the Giants. So have the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies, and while the Athletics are scheduled to move to Las Vegas in 2028, they haven\u2019t gotten there yet.<\/p>\n
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Oracle Park, the Giants\u2019 picturesque waterfront stadium at 3rd and King Streets, last hosted the event in 2007. Some other MLB cities, such as Toronto (1991) and Baltimore (1993), have waited longer, and the Tampa Bay Rays have never hosted. But for 2028, geography works against those venues.<\/p>\n
The 2027 All-Star Game \u2014 potential lockout permitting \u2014 will take place at Chicago\u2019s Wrigley Field, which has not hosted since 1990.<\/p>\n
San Francisco has a colorful All-Star Game history. In 1961, at blustery Candlestick Park, Giants pitcher Stu Miller was called for a balk when a gust of wind caused him to sway on the mound. In 1984, New York Mets rookie Dwight Gooden struck out the side in his All-Star debut. In 2007, at the new ballpark, the Seattle Mariners\u2019 Ichiro Suzuki hit the first and only inside-the-park homer in All-Star history.<\/p>\n
\u201cHosting the All-Star Game is more than celebrating the game\u2019s brightest stars, it\u2019s a chance to highlight the people, neighborhoods, and culture that make our community so special,\u201d Giants president and chief executive Larry Baer said in a statement. \u201cFew cities offer the unique combination of sports, culture, innovation, entertainment and natural beauty that defines San Francisco.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s mayor, Daniel Lurie, called San Francisco \u201cthe sports capital of the world\u201d in a statement, noting the area recently hosted the Super Bowl, the World Cup and NBA All-Star Weekend.<\/p>\n
But San Francisco has also been hit hard by housing and drug crises, and Lurie acknowledged he had discussed some of the challenges with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I shared with Commissioner Manfred two weeks ago, we\u2019ve made public safety our top priority since day one, and we\u2019re delivering safe and clean streets for residents and visitors,\u201d Lurie\u2019s statement read.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Franciscans feel like our city is moving in the right direction, and people want to be here again. These major events bring visitors, support our local restaurants and bars, and continue to drive our recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball awarded the 2028 All-Star Game to San Francisco on Friday, hoping that the Midsummer Classic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1334,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-433715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","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\/433715","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=433715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}