After a day of questions surrounding if they would indeed play, the Mets took the field with the Marlins, took off their hats for 42 seconds of silence, laid a Black Lives Matter t-shirt in the house plate, and then promptly left the field.
In doing so, the Mets and Marlins made theirs the 6th postponed video game of Thursday, a day after the NBA, WNBA, MLS and several MLB teams chose not to play in solidarity following the authorities shooting of 29-year-old black male Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisc
. Mets first baseman Dominic Smith kneeled ahead of Wednesdays video game, and offered a teary viewpoint after the groups win.
” The most challenging part is to see that individuals still do not care,” Smith stated. “For this to continually take place, this just shows the hate in peoples hearts. That simply draws, you understand. Being a black man in America is hard. Like I stated, I wasnt there (psychologically) today, however I will be great.”
The Mets took the field on Thursday night, and after that left it.
