With the 2025 MLB All-Star Game taking place tonight, I thought it would be fun to ask Giants fans about their favorite All-Star Game memories!
Good morning, baseball fans!
The San Francisco Giants will have three players representing them at tonight’s MLB All-Star Game in the form of Logan Webb, Robbie Ray and Randy Rodríguez. Which means that Giants fans will have plenty to root for as the National League takes on the American League tonight at 5:00 p.m. PT on Fox.
As of the time this is being written, Paul Skenes (Pittsburgh Pirates) is set to start for the National League, with Tarik Skubal (Detroit Tigers) set to start for the American League.
So today I wanted to talk about some of your favorite All-Star Game memories.
Personally, I have to go with the 2016 All-Star Game, but not for the game itself.
What I remember best was the push to get Brandon Belt voted in in the final fan vote. Myself, former McCovey Chronicles writer Carmen Kiew, and many others led the charge on social media, with certain posts and hashtags counting as votes. But the best part was that I was headed to the park myself on the day that voting closed and the results were announced.
Late the night before, I spent a few hours scheduling social media posts to publish in the morning while I was actually taking cars, trains and boats to get to the park. We got the news that Belt had indeed made the team while we were on the ferry. By the time we reached the city it was a big old party of happy Giants fans celebrating, with Belt getting a huge celebratory ovation when he was announced in the starting line-up that night. And if I’m not mistaken, Belt ended up walking four times in that game. Legend.
It was so fun to get to do my part to help push my favorite player at the time towards the recognition I felt he was long overdue for, and then getting to actually be there to see the announcement on the field was icing on a very cool cake.