“I could not play this game I love so much tonight knowing the hurt and anguish my people continue to feel.”
Wednesday “to highlight issues that really matter, especially racial injustice and systematic oppression,” according to a statement.
Other individual baseball players sat out their team’s games that went on, including Colorado Rockies player Matt Kemp who said in a statement posted on Instagram: “I could not play this game I love so much tonight knowing the hurt andafter players made the decision to sit out the matches in a strike.in the back after he walked to his car where his children were waiting during an attempted arrest.
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