MLB Top 10 Moments of 2025: From All-Star Game Swing-off to World Series Game 7

Coming up with the top-10 moments over the past year was not easy for 2025.

Baseball hit a boom period this past year, with history being made throughout the season at MLB's biggest events. The World Series was one to remember, and the All-Star Game finished with a swing-off for the first time ever.

Here is the best of the best from 2025:

Honorable mention: A trio of four-homer games

Major League Baseball went seven straight seasons without a four-homer game when Eugenio Suarez changed that on April 26 against the Braves, becoming the 19th MLB player to accomplish the feat. Stunningly, two more players would join him on the exclusive list before season’s end. 

A's rookie Nick Kurtz became the first rookie in MLB history with a four-homer game when he went 6-for-6 in Houston on July 25, joining Shawn Green (2002) as the only players ever with six hits and four homers in a single game. One month later, Kyle Schwarber became the 21st member of the club in a career year for the Phillies slugger, who led the National League with 56 home runs. 

Prior to the 2025 season, the last player to record a four-homer game was J.D. Martinez in September 2017. — Kavner

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Kershaw’s first career strikeout came when he was 20 years old on May 25, 2008, on a fastball to Skip Schumaker. Seventeen years later, in front of a sold-out crowd of 53,536 fans at Dodger Stadium who went to see history on July 2, 2025, the Dodgers’ all-time strikeout leader threw a slider to Vinny Capra that dotted the outside corner to become the 20th member of the 3,000-strikeout club. It’s possible, given the way that pitching has changed, that he’s also the last member of that exclusive list. It was just the latest feat in a