Mariners' T-Mobile Park officially named site of 2023 MLB All-Star Game
For the third time in franchise history, the Seattle Mariners will host the MLB All-Star Game in 2023.
An official announcement was made Thursday afternoon at Seattle’s Space Needle to name T-Mobile Park the site of baseball’s annual “Midsummer Classic” in July 2023. In addition to the All-Star Game, which is typically played on a Tuesday evening in mid-July, the events at T-Mobile Park will include the annual Home Run Derby on the Monday night before, the Futures and Celebrity Softball games on Sunday afternoon, and the latest addition to the festivities, the MLB Draft.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement, and present at the news conference were the Mariners’ two Baseball Hall of Famers, Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez, in addition to Mariners front office members and Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan.
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The Mariners last hosted the All-Star Game in 2001 at then-Safeco Field, just two years after the building opened. That game turned out to be a showcase for a Mariners team that tied to MLB record for most wins in a regular season with 116. The M’s had eight All-Stars on the American League roster, with Ichiro Suzuki hitting a leadoff single for the AL, Freddy Garcia earning the win and Kazuhiro Sasaki recording the save.
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