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Alex Cobb woke Thursday knowing it was going to be a different kind of day for him and the Orioles.
Across major professional sports this week, the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man from Wisconsin, had been cause for athletes and teams to essentially go on strike and not play as a way to continue to bring attention to systemic issues of racial injustice and police brutality.
The Orioles’ winding path to that same decision for their game Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays, one that came barely an hour after manager Brandon Hyde told reporters that they’d unanimously decided to play, ensured that even if one or two members of their clubhouse was hurt by Blake’s shooting or any of the myriad instances of societal oppression that incident represents, he wouldn’t be forced to play or feel that alone.