Another day, another on-field gender reveal in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n
Continuing what has become a trend in the early weeks of the 2026 season, Cleveland Guardians<\/a> pitcher Tanner Bibee<\/a> took the field for Friday\u2019s matchup<\/a> with the Baltimore Orioles<\/a> sporting pink shoelaces to reveal that his brother and sister-in-law are expecting a baby girl.<\/p>\n Bibee joined Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> pitcher Brandon Pfaadt<\/a> and Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> catcher Joey Bart<\/a> in using their on-field gear to reveal the gender of a baby to someone close to them.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Pfaadt wore pink shoelaces during his start last Saturday<\/a> against the Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> to reveal that his brother Brett and Brett\u2019s partner, Hannah, are having a daughter.<\/p>\n Earlier this week, Bart donned a pink armband<\/a> on behalf of teammate Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> to reveal to family and friends that the pitcher and his wife are going to have a baby girl.<\/p>\n Did each player channel the vibes of sharing their good news with family, friends and fans into a successful performance?<\/p>\n Pfaadt allowed three runs on five hits and three walks over six innings, taking the loss in a 4-3 defeat<\/a> to the Phillies. Ashcraft earned a no-decision while giving up two runs and five hits with seven strikeouts in an 8-7, 10-inning loss<\/a> to the Nationals. Bart batted 1-for-5 and whiffed twice in the game.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bibee began his start Friday by throwing four scoreless innings versus the Orioles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another day, another on-field gender reveal in Major League Baseball. Continuing what has become a trend in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[592,64,63,1186,246686,66396,5258,164101,79185,5882,591,2365,298023,5160,85,102028],"class_list":{"0":"post-613946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-baltimore-orioles","12":"tag-brandon-pfaadt","13":"tag-braxton-ashcraft","14":"tag-cleveland-guardians","15":"tag-joey-bart","16":"tag-jomboy-media","17":"tag-major-league-baseball","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","20":"tag-pink-shoelaces","21":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-tanner-bibee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}