{"id":748085,"date":"2026-06-20T03:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:56:09","slug":"mlb-faces-doj-investigation-over-pride-hats-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/748085\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB faces DOJ investigation over Pride hats controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dek\">Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman joins \u2018The Ingraham Angle\u2019 to report on the Department of Justice\u2019s investigation into the MLB over its stance on Pride hats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dek long-dek\">Major League Baseball is under a DOJ investigation following controversy over Pride-themed hats. The San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on rainbow caps, prompting an MLB warning and a DOJ statement questioning a &#8216;double standard&#8217; for &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; patches versus religious inscriptions. This follows the York Revolution forfeiting a game due to players refusing Pride jerseys, highlighting free speech and religious liberty issues within sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fox News correspondent Christina Coleman joins \u2018The Ingraham Angle\u2019 to report on the Department of Justice\u2019s investigation into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,348083,39630,591,117129,85,446],"class_list":["post-748085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-breaking-news-videos","tag-fox-news","tag-mlb","tag-news-videos","tag-sports","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748085","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=748085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}