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On Opening Day of the 2020 MLB season, players, managers, and coaches of the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals knelt in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement before standing for the National Anthem.
‘We wanted to do something united, something together,’ Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said after the Yankees’ 4-1 victory, called in the sixth inning due to rain at Nationals Park.
‘We’ve got a lot of guys in this clubhouse with different beliefs, different feelings, different walks of life and from different countries,’ Judge said. ‘And we want to respect all that and as a team we came to the decision to kneel right before the anthem.’
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants also took a knee before the anthem, and some players remained kneeling for the anthem itself.
At Dodger Stadium, Opening Day featured a pre-game video from The Players Alliance, a group of more than 100 Black players led by CC Sabathia, Curtis Granderson, and Edwin Jackson, calling for racial justice and reaffirming that ‘Black lives matter.’
The San Francisco Giants team, coaches, and managers wore T-shirts that read ‘Black Lives Matter’ during the pre-game warmups.
‘It just shows unity,’ Dodgers right fielder Markus ‘Mookie’ Betts said of kneeling. ‘I think everybody is on board with what’s going on in the world. We have to make some change. It starts here. We have to do our part. It’s amazing to know that everybody here is on board with something that we have to find a way to make change. This is the first step.’

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