Mets, Marlins walk off field

The Mets and Marlins jointly walked off the field after a moment of silence, draping a Black Lives Matter Tshirt across home plate as they chose not to play Aug. 27.

After other games around baseball were postponed to protest social injustice, the Mets were late to take the field and 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 outfielder Dominic Smith — a Black man who wept Aug. 26 while discussing the shooting by police of a Black man in Wisconsin over the weekend — then led New York onto the field. Players took their positions, then reserves and coaches filed out of both dugouts and stood silently for 42 seconds.

Both teams then returned to their clubhouses, leaving only the black T-shirt at home.

“After seeing the comments Dom made last night, it’s not just about Dom, but it really touched all of us in the clubhouse,” Mets outfielder Michael Conforto said.

Golf

One of the toughest tests of the year made it clear that par would be a great score at Olympia Fields. Leave it to Hideki Matsuyama to make a 65-foot birdie putt on his final hole to lead the BMW Championship.

Matsuyama, the Japanese player who has gone three years since his last victory, birdied two of his last three holes for a 3-under 67, one of only three rounds under par on a course that was long, tough, firm, fast and nothing like the last two weeks.

Tyler Duncan, just outside the top 30 as he tries to earn his first trip to the Tour Championship, made an 8-foot par putt on his last hole for a 68. Mackenzie Hughes, one of only four players who reached 3 under at any point in his round, was another shot behind.

NFL

Tony Dungy has been added to the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s selection committee, the fourth hall member to become part of the voting process. Dungy joins Bill Polian, James Lofton and Dan Fouts on the panel.