That's the official word. Tonight's Giants-Dodgers game has been postponed.
As Gabe Kapler put it: "some things are bigger than sports."
Both the Giants (in particular manager Kapler) and the Dodgers (in particular Clayton Kershaw) have been outspoken about injustice and systemic racism in our society and this action seems consistent with those stands. Things started with what one might call a "boycott" or "wildcat strike" by the NBAs Milwaukee Bucks and that quickly spread to all the teams in the NBA playoff bubble. Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers acted not much later and that rippled to other MLB teams on the schedule for tonight. Here's the word from MLB:
--M.C.
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Baggs says that the Dodgers decision not to play was the prime mover of the postponement. Mookie Betts told his teammates he was not playing and the rest of the team decided to support him. Here's a quote from Kershaw (from Baggs' article):
“Once Mookie said that he wasn’t going to play, that really started our conversation as a team of ‘What can we do to support that?'” Kershaw said. “I think more than anything as a teammate of Mookie’s, as a White player on this team, is how can we show support. What’s something tangible that we can do to help our Black brothers? We made a collective group decision to not play tonight and to let our voices be heard for standing up for what we believe is right.”
That spilled over to the Giants side and they went along with the postponement although the sentiment was not universal, as some players and staff wanted to get a game in.
Doubleheader today.
https://theathletic.com/2026450/2020/08/27/theres-no-one-right-answer-giants-werent-unanimous-in-decision-to-walk-out/
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