Brewers postpone game in solidarity with Bucks
MILWAUKEE » A pair of Major League Baseball games were postponed Wednesday as players across the sports landscape reacted in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.
Games between the Reds and Brewers in Milwaukee and the Mariners and Padres in San Diego were called off hours before they were set to begin.
The baseball postponements came after the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks didn’t come out on the floor for Game 5 of their first-round playoff series with the Orlando Magic on Wednesday afternoon at Lake Buena Vista, Fla. NBA officials later announced that all three of the day’s scheduled playoff games had been postponed.
Blake was shot multiple times by police in Kenosha, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee. The Blake family’s attorney said Blake was paralyzed and that it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again.
The shooting of Blake, 29,
Arizona
Wednesday’s games
Chicago White Sox 10, Pittsburgh 3 Atlanta 5, N.Y. Yankees 1, 1st game Philadelphia at Washington Chicago Cubs at Detroit Miami at N.Y. Mets
N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta, 2nd game Cincinnati at Milwaukee, ppd. Kansas City at St. Louis Seattle at San Diego Colorado at Arizona
L.A. Dodgers at Giants
Thursday’s games
13 18 .419 9
Pittsburgh (Kuhl 1-1) at St. Louis (Kim 1-0), 3:15 p.m., 1st game
Seattle (Kikuchi 0-2) at San Diego (Richards 1-1), 4:10 p.m.
Colorado (Freeland 2-1) at Arizona (Gallen 0-0), 6:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Howard 0-1) at Washington (Scherzer 2-1), 6:37 p.m. Pittsburgh (Ponce 0-1) at St. Louis (Oviedo 0-0), 6:45 p.m., 2nd game Miami (Sanchez 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 7:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Buehler 1-0) at Giants was captured on cellphone video Sunday and ignited protests in Kenosha and elsewhere.
“The players from the Brewers and Reds have decided to not play tonight’s baseball game. With our community and our nation in such pain, we wanted to draw as much attention to the issues that really matter, especially racial injustice and systemic oppression,” players from both teams said in a joint statement.
Mariners infielder/outfielder Dee Gordon said the team decided unanimously to skip Wednesday’s game.
“There are serious issues in this country,” Gordon tweeted. “For me, and for many of my teammates, the injustices, violence, death and systemic racism is deeply personal. This is impacting not only my community, but very directly my family and friends. Our team voted unanimously not to play tonight.”
“Instead of watching us, we hope people will focus on the things more important than sports that are happening,” he said.
Mariners pitcher Justin (Webb 2-2), 8:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Miley 0-3) at Milwaukee (Lindblom 1-1), 8:10 p.m.
New York
Tauchman rf Voit 1b Hicks cf Ford dh Urshela 3b Sanchez c Gardner lf Estrada 2b Andujar ph Wade ss
Totals Atlanta
Acuna Jr; cf Swanson ss Freeman 1b Ozuna dh Markakis rf Duvall lf Riley 3b Flowers c Camargo 2b
AB
3 3 3 2 3 3 3 1 1 1
23 AB
2 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 2
R H BI BB SO
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 R
2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
2 H
1 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 6 BI BB SO
1 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 2 2 2 1
Avg
.315 .312 .200 .167 .247 .127 .172 .250 .091 .192
Avg
.265 .319 .303 .282 .378 .247 .198 .333 .182
Dunn tweeted: “Enough is enough.”
Dunn included a Black Lives Matter hashtag and a cartoon image of he and his Black teammates in Black Lives Matter shirts.
Colorado outfielder Matt Kemp, who is Black, announced on social media he would skip the Rockies’ game in Arizona “in protest of the injustices my people continue to suffer.”
“I could not play this game I love so much tonight knowing the hurt and anguish my people continue to feel,” he wrote.
Mets slugger Dom Smith, a Black man who has spoken about his experiences in a predominantly white sport, took a knee for the national anthem for the first time this season. New York pitcher Robert Gsellman, who is white, wore a Black Lives Matter T-shirt instead of a uniform as he watched from the stands behind the dugout.
“Ending police brutality is more important than sports,” tweeted Pirates infielder Cole Tucker. Pittsburgh played the Chicago White Sox in the afternoon.
Totals New York Atlanta
a-lined out for Estrada in the 7th.
Riley (6); New York 4, Atlanta 3; Freeman (10), Markakis (7); Voit (11), off Anderson, Acuna Jr, (5), off Cole, Swanson (4), off Cole, Ozuna (8), off Cole; Voit (21), Acuna
Jr, (10), Swanson 2 (18), Ozuna (20), Markakis (7); Wade (1), Acuna Jr, (2);
New York 1 (Tauchman), Atlanta 2 (Flowers); New York 0 for 2, Atlanta 2 for 5; Urshela; Atlanta 1 (Swanson, Camargo, Freeman); Home, James Hoye, First, Junior Valentine, Second, Chad Whitson, Third, Mark Carlson; 2:05.
E: 2B: SB: Runners left in scoring position: RISP: GIDP: T:
Cole L,4-1 Cessa
24 000 001 103 001 LOB: RBIs: DP:
5 1
Anderson W,1-0 6 Greene 1
5 1
1 1
5 _ _ Umpires:
5 0
1 0
6 0 x
5 0
5
2 0
2 11 1 5 2 6 HR: 0 1
9 103 3.51 2 14 4.66
1 2 6 90 1.50 0 0 0 10 0.68 Cessa 2-1; Cole.
Inherited runners-scored: HBP: WP:
Anderson (Estrada);