Baseball felt secondary to what the country was going through, the A's still played the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night.
A’s manager Bob Melvin said “it was uncomfortable,” but Oakland played anyway.
Three MLB games, including the Giants' against the Los Angeles Dodgers, were postponed as teams boycotted in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Sunday. A Kenosha, Wisconsin police officer shot Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, seven times in the back.
The NBA and WNBA each postponed its full slate of games, and the Milwaukee Brewers' matchup with the Cincinnati Reds was the first to be boycotted and then postponed in MLB.