All the players in Thursday afternoon’s lineup were sporting the number 21 in honor of baseball legend Roberto Clemente, but for the first time in history, they also had something else in common. The Rays’ lineup against the Jays was entirely made of Latino players, something that has inexplicably never occurred in an MLB game before Thursday.
The men on the field: Yandy Diaz, Randy Arozarena, Wander Franco, Manuel Margot, Jose Siri, Harold Ramirez, David Peralta, René Pinto, and Isaac Paredes, represented several countries including Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Colombia, and Mexico, and most of them didn’t even recognize what was special about the lineup until after the game.