San Francisco Giants reliever Sam Coonrod didn't kneel before Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, telling reporters he "can't kneel before anything besides God."
The right-hander also spoke about his differences with the Black Lives Matter movement.
"I'm a Christian, like I said, and I just can't get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter," Coonrod said, per NBC Sports Bay Area's Alex Pavlovic. "How they lean toward Marxism and they've said some negative things about the nuclear family. I just can't get on board with that.