The Yankees (and the Rays) made good trouble on social media Thursday night. The teams’ respective communications teams announced prior to first pitch they would not tweet about the game (a 7-2 Yankees win).
The teams instead offered facts about gun violence in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, earlier this week. Twenty-one people were killed, including 19 children. The shooting comes on the heels of the recent supermarket shooting in Buffalo and shootings in “countless other communities across our nation.”
It was an admirable tact. The Yankees’ series of tweets began with a jarring message: “Every day, more than 110 Americans are killed with guns, and more than 200 are shot and injured,” and continued from there.