{"id":740870,"date":"2026-06-16T16:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740870\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T16:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T16:48:14","slug":"mlb-warns-giants-players-over-altered-pride-night-caps-with-biblical-inscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/740870\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB warns Giants players over altered Pride Night caps with biblical inscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

MLB has \u201cwarned\u201d the three Giants players who wrote Biblical inscriptions on the team\u2019s Pride caps<\/a> during Pride Night at Oracle Park, according to Jim Buzinski of OUTSPORTS.com. MLB Chief Communications Officer Pat Courtney said, \u201cThe writing on the cap violates our rules and consistent with normal practice we have warned the players about future violations.\u201d During Friday\u2019s game, Giants Ps Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wore the rainbow Pride caps but \u201cwrote the Bible verse \u2018Genesis 9:11-16\u2032 next to the rainbow \u2018SF.\u2019\u201d P Sam Hentges, though, did not wear the Pride cap, \u201copting for the team\u2019s normal hat.\u201d Buzinski wrote the Genesis verse has been \u201cused by Christians as a way to \u2018claim\u2019 the rainbow for their religion in opposition for its use as an LGBTQ symbol.\u201d For MLB, a warning is the standard for a first offense, but if a player violated the rule again, the discipline \u201cwill escalate\u201d (OUTSPORTS.com, 6\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n

LACK OF REPRESENTATION: In S.F., Ann Killion wrote \u201csome of the snowflakes\u201d on the Giants decided to \u201csay a giant F-you to a good chunk of their fan base.\u201d On a night that \u201cwas supposed to be about inclusion, they hijacked the event for their own purposes.\u201d Hentges, who became the first Giants player to refuse to wear the Pride Night gear, said, \u201cIt\u2019s just something that I feel like I was forced to support when I don\u2019t morally support it.\u201d Killion: \u201cWhat about the people who support him, and his team? What about the city whose name is on the front of his uniform, a city that fully backs his team?\u201d She also wondered why the Giants did not \u201creact more strongly to having their uniform defaced\u201d or make it clear that all players were \u201cexpected to participate, that it is part of their big-league, highly compensated obligation?\u201d (S.F. CHRONICLE, 6\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n

LOSING THEIR WAY: OUTSPORTS.com\u2019s John Casey wrote if any franchise in American professional sports \u201chas no excuse for letting a night like this slide into a culture-war Bible study, it\u2019s the San Francisco Giants.\u201d In 1994, the Giants became the first professional sports team in the country to host an HIV\/AIDS awareness game, which became an annual tradition for the club. In 2011, the Giants were also the first pro sports franchise to join the \u201cIt Gets Better\u201d campaign, and in 2021, they became the first MLB team to put Pride colors on their on-field uniforms. Casey: \u201cA team with this r\u00e9sum\u00e9 should be the last organization in baseball where players feel comfortable turning a night meant to affirm LGBTQ+ fans into a referendum on whether they belong\u201d (OUTSPORTS.com, 6\/15<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB has \u201cwarned\u201d the three Giants players who wrote Biblical inscriptions on the team\u2019s Pride caps during Pride…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[3307,49,48,569,462,82],"class_list":["post-740870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-culture","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}