2026 MLB All-Star Game

2026 MLB All-Star Game — Week Schedule

1. July 10, 2026 · HBCU Swingman Classic
   College showcase presented by USA Baseball at Citizens Bank Park, live on MLB Network.
2. July 11, 2026 · MLB Draft — Round 1
   Opening rounds at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Grand Hall, free and open to the public.
3. July 12, 2026 · All-Star Futures Game & MLBx 3-on-3
   Top prospects plus the new co-ed 3-on-3 format at Citizens Bank Park.
4. July 13, 2026 · T-Mobile Home Run Derby
   Gatorade All-Star Workout Day followed by the Home Run Derby, 8 p.m. ET.
5. July 14, 2026 · All-Star Red Carpet Show & Game
   The 96th Midsummer Classic, American League vs National League, 8 p.m. ET on FOX.

2026 MLB All-Star Game Weekend Planning Blueprint

All-Star Week is a marathon, not a single night — here is how to pace it.

1. Arrive by Saturday, July 11. Monday’s Home Run Derby is the hottest ticket, but the week opens earlier with the HBCU Swingman Classic and the MLB Draft — and the Draft is free and open to the public at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Land early and the bonus baseball costs you nothing.
2. Base yourself for your priority. Want to walk to every event? Stay in the South Philadelphia Sports Complex beside the ballpark. Want the city between events — food, history, nightlife? Base in Center City and ride the Broad Street Line straight down on game days. It is a 15-minute subway, not a cab gamble.
3. Treat Derby night as the peak. The T-Mobile Home Run Derby is the loudest, most celebrity-heavy night of the week. Eat early in South Philly, be at the park when gates open, and leave the rest of the night wide open — you will be out late.
4. Build the off-hours into a real Philadelphia trip. Mornings are yours: Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell in Old City, the 9th Street Italian Market, the Art Museum steps. This is the part of All-Star Week most fans under-plan and later wish they had not.
5. Game day, July 14 — go early, stay out. The All-Star Red Carpet Show runs before first pitch; that is your celebrity-spotting window. After the final out, Xfinity Live! and the South Philly bars run late into the night.

Who This Event Fits Best

The 2026 All-Star Game is really five days of baseball wearing a single name. Here is who should clear the calendar for it.

• The baseball purist. This is a binge, not a ballgame — the Home Run Derby, the Futures Game, the MLB Draft and the Midsummer Classic itself, stacked across five days in one ballpark. If your perfect July is wall-to-wall baseball, nothing else on the calendar comes close.
• The bucket-list American-summer traveler. 2026 is the country’s 250th birthday, and the All-Star Game lands in the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Catch the Derby under the lights, then stand inside Independence Hall by daylight — few sports trips double as a history pilgrimage.
• The ballpark collector and the Phillies diehard. This is the first All-Star Game ever played at Citizens Bank Park. If you are working through all 30 MLB parks — or you simply bleed Phillies red — this is a milestone weekend worth the trip.
• The eat-your-way-through-it traveler. The ballpark sits in the middle of one of America’s great food neighborhoods. Pat’s versus Geno’s at midnight, the 9th Street Italian Market by morning, Reading Terminal in between — this trip is as much a cheesesteak crawl as a baseball one.
• Maybe sit this one out if… you want a quiet, low-key getaway. Mid-July Philadelphia during All-Star Week runs hot, crowded and loud — this is a crowd-energy trip, and that is exactly the point.

Official Links & Tickets

Official 2026 MLB All-Star Game site
Official hospitality and ticket packages are sold through MLB On Location; Ticketmaster is the authorized resale marketplace. The All-Star Week ticket-strip lottery ran May 1–14, 2026.