Baseball’s Mets and Marlins are standing in solidarity with Black Lives Matter protesters. RELATED: L.A. Clippers Coach Doc Rivers Reacts To Jacob Blake Shooting: ‘We’re The Ones That Need To Be Scared’ The MLB teams from New York and Miami respectively walked off the field Thursday night, skipping their scheduled game in protest over the shooting of Jacob Blake by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, earlier this week.
The move followed similar actions by players and teams across professional sports in the MLB, NBA, WNBA, and MLS. RELATED: NBA Players Agree To Return After Boycott Over Police Brutality Before the Mets-Marlins game was set to start, the teams held a moment of silence for Blake and Black Lives Matter.
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