They wore the T-shirts, the ones that said “Justice Equality Now,” the white players, Latin players and Black players did. They talked when asked about justice and equality and when now might be, as that day was being pushed over the horizon, to some other day, and as those issues were being pushed to the next person, to the next generation, to some other Now.
They didn’t play baseball in Milwaukee on Wednesday night. Forty miles from where, three days before, a police officer shot Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, multiple times in the back, they didn’t play baseball.