{"id":127258,"date":"2026-07-13T00:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/127258\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T00:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T00:56:13","slug":"philadelphias-sanchez-to-start-all-star-game-at-home-for-nl-torontos-cease-the-pick-for-al-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/127258\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia’s S\u00e1nchez to start All-Star Game at home for NL. Toronto’s Cease the pick for AL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristopher S\u00e1nchez of the Philadelphia Phillies will start Tuesday night’s All-Star Game in his home ballpark, taking the mound for the National League against Dylan Cease of the Toronto Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays announced Sunday that Cease will be the American League’s starter. Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who is managing the NL, said Sanchez is his starter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he deserves it. He\u2019s the hometown ballplayer and I think the city of Philly will enjoy watching him and supporting him,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cI had a conversation with him this morning. … He was very grateful. In a time when guys are not wanting to participate, this guy in the Midsummer Classic for fans, I think this is a good thing. He\u2019s very excited about pitching.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also Sunday, Yankees manager Aaron Boone said New York right-hander Cam Schlittler is not planning to pitch in the All-Star Game. Schlittler will still be at the game and there is no replacement planned for the AL roster.<\/p>\n

Sanchez is 11-4 with a 2.62 ERA this season. He’s third in the major leagues with 144 strikeouts. The left-hander’s streak of 50 2\/3 scoreless innings was a highlight of the major league season so far.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski, who leads the majors in ERA (1.62), WHIP (0.76) and strikeouts (167), was replaced on the All-Star team earlier in the week<\/a>, when it appeared he would be starting for the Brewers on Sunday. Then Milwaukee scratched him from that start because of arm fatigue.<\/p>\n

Cease is 6-4 with a 2.56 ERA for the Blue Jays. He nearly threw his second career no-hitter Wednesday against San Francisco, but it was broken up<\/a> in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

Cease is the first Toronto pitcher to start the All-Star Game since Roy Halladay in 2009.<\/p>\n

Cease got the word from his manager, John Schneider, who will skipper the AL squad, during a team meeting before Sunday\u2019s series finale at San Diego.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty surreal. I didn\u2019t know what to say. Everyone\u2019s saying, \u2018Give a speech,\u2019 and I\u2019m like, I was pretty speechless, so it was just a really cool experience,\u201d Cease said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really cool how all of these things have lined up, you know, even being able to pitch in it and having a good enough first half to be in the running for it and all that. And the fact that pretty much our entire staff is going, it\u2019s really a really great recipe,” Cease added. <\/p>\n

Schlittler was a candidate to start, boasting an AL-leading ERA of 2.05, but he pitched for the Yankees on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust feels like on his recovery day to go back out there throwing 100 mph is something that I think he felt a little apprehensive about,\u201d Boone told reporters before New York’s game at Washington. \u201cCertainly support that decision and obviously I think he understands what\u2019s at stake here in the second half too for us and for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlittler could start the opening game of the second half against the Dodgers on Friday at Yankee Stadium.<\/p>\n

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AP freelance writers Bernie Wilson in San Diego and Doug Padilla in Los Angeles contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristopher S\u00e1nchez of the Philadelphia Phillies will start Tuesday night’s All-Star Game in his home ballpark, taking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[149,42492,6982,49,48],"class_list":["post-127258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-baseball","tag-mlb-all-star-game","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}