AROUND THE HORN
■ Mets, Marlins: The Mets and Marlins jointly walked off the field after a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter T-shirt across home plate as they chose not to play Thursday night. After other games around baseball were postponed to protest social injustice, the Mets were late to take their home field and never submitted a lineup to the public or the umpires. Neither starting pitcher threw any warmup pitches. The teams stood around their dugouts in full uniforms shortly before the 7:10 p.m. scheduled first pitch, and the national anthem was played and all players and coaches stood. Mets OF Dominic Smith — a Black man who wept Wednesday night while discussing the shooting by police of Jacob Blake — led the Mets onto the field. Players took their positions, then reserves and coaches filed out of both dugouts and stood silently for 42 seconds. Members on each team doffed caps towards the other side before returning to their clubhouses, leaving only the black T-shirt at home.
■ Dodgers: Three-time NL Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw backed former AL MVP and current teammate Mookie Betts and other Black baseball players with his thoughtful words when his Dodgers decided not to play Wednesday night. Once the Dodgers got back to the field, Kershaw (4-1) pitched six scoreless innings Thursday in leading the first-place Dodgers past the host Giants 7-0 in Game 1 of a doubleheader shutout sweep. Kershaw’s delivery a night earlier was equally appreciated by teammates. “As a white player on this team ... how do we show support? What’s something tangible that we can do to help our black brothers on this team?” Kershaw said in support of Betts not playing Wednesday. “Once Mookie said that he wasn’t going to play that really started our conversation as a team of what we could do to support that.” Manager Dave Roberts was pleased with how his team handled things. “For guys to stand together and not play a major league baseball game is a big deal,” he said before the first game of two seveninning contests. Joc Pederson homered and Will Smith added an RBI double as the Dodgers won the nightcap 2-0. ... RHP Walker Buehler was placed on the IL with a blister on his throwing hand..
■ Mariners, Padres: Rookie Jose Marmolejos hit his first grand slam and Shed Long Jr. also connected a six-run first that carried the Mariners to an 8-3 road victory over the Padres and a split of a doubleheader. The Mariners took two of three from the Padres, who got three HRs on Thursday from red-hot Manny Machado. In the first game, Wil Myers hit a gameending three-run HR to cap a seven-run rally with two outs in the seventh and give the Padres a 10-7 win. They played the doubleheader after the Mariners voted unanimously not to play Wednesday night.
■ Blue Jays: The Blue Jays acquired RHP Taijuan Walker in trade with the Mariners for a player or cash. The 28-year-old was 2-2 with a 4.00 ERA in five starts this season, with 25 strikeouts and eight walks.