MLB cancels 2020 All-Star Game scheduled for Los Angeles

MLB cancels 2020 All-Star Game scheduled for Los Angeles
03/07/2020
This will be the first time since 1945 that no MLB All-Star Game will be held.

Major League Baseball today announced that the 2020 MLB All-Star Game, which was scheduled to be hosted by the Los Angeles Dodgers, has been cancelled. Based on the health circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic that are beyond MLB’s control along with governmental directives prohibiting large gatherings, the league determined it is unable to conduct the All-Star Game and its week of surrounding fan activities this year.

With the Atlanta Braves already named as host of the 2021 All-Star Game in Atlanta, the Dodgers will host the next available Midsummer Classic in 2022. 

“Once it became clear we were unable to hold this year’s All-Star festivities, we wanted to award the Dodgers with the next available All-Star Game, which is 2022,” said MLB Commissioner Robert D. Manfred Jr.

The Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) and Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) have also canceled their respective 2020 All-Star Games.