When the fans began to rise, Khalif Rainey’s friends who sat in the stands at Milwaukee’s Miller Park picked up their camera phones just as they picked up their jaws. They snapped photos and videos, just to make sure they weren’t imagining what was happening.
"They were saying, 'I can't believe what I just witnessed,'" Rainey said. And who could? Here was a ballpark faced with how to respond to a pitcher who had posted on social media several years ago, vile, misogynistic, racist, homophobic vitriol. The acts were egregious, even if they were years old. The response was a full-throated standing ovation.