Can You Name Every MLB All-Star Game Starting Pitcher Since 2000?

Taking the mound for the All-Star Game is one of baseball's highest honors. See if you can remember who’s gotten the starting nod in recent years.

Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes started the 2025 MLB All-Star Game for the National League. | Brett Davis / USA TODAY Network

Getting the chance to play in the MLB All-Star Game is among the highest individual achievements a player can reach during their career. Starting the game is an even greater honor. But getting the nod as the game's starting pitcher? Now that's elite praise every staff aces aspires toward.

Over the years, the record of All-Star Game starting pitchers serves as a useful almanac in keeping track of baseball's history. The pitchers who have received the call range from future Hall of Famers to journeymen arms who just so happened to have a fluky first half and everything in between. While the names cover a broad spectrum of career accomplishments, starting the All-Star Game on the mound remains a special feat.

Of course, the fact that pitchers rarely throw more than two innings in an All-Star Game these days makes their actual accomplishments during the Midsummer Classic only slightly more than brief cameos. It’s more about what got them there. Looking only at modern iterations of the game, can you name every starting pitcher in MLB All-Star Games since 2000? Test your knowledge below.

Two pitchers—Lefty Gomez and Robin Roberts—are tied with the lead for most career starts in All-Star Games at five apiece. The Yankees have had the most pitchers chosen as starters at 21, while the Dodgers rank second with 17.

There have been two instances in which both starting pitchers in a given season went on to win that year's Cy Young Awards—though, since both occurred after 2000, you'll have to take the quiz to find out which pitchers pulled that off.