{"id":359511,"date":"2026-06-13T17:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359511\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:39:18","slug":"sf-giants-landen-roupp-says-no-hate-in-pride-night-message-on-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/359511\/","title":{"rendered":"SF Giants’ Landen Roupp says no hate in Pride Night message on hat"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Pride Night at Oracle Park, with the San Francisco Giants<\/a> wearing special edition hats to represent the LGBTQ+ community, multiple players wrote Bible verses next to the team\u2019s rainbow logo, while one chose to forgo wearing the cap entirely.<\/p>\n

Starting pitcher Landen Roupp<\/a> and reliever JT Brubaker wrote the Bible verse Genesis 9:12-16 on the caps they wore Friday night, the same passage that has been displayed by other players on their Pride Night hats during games.<\/p>\n

\u201cKind of what the verse says, the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant to us and us as believers stand firm in that,\u201d Roupp said.<\/p>\n

Former Giants shortstop Nick Ahmed wrote the verse on his hat in 2024, while retired Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw inscribed the same verse on his hat last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, reliever Sam Hentges opted out of wearing the pride hat, instead donning San Francisco\u2019s usual black and orange cap.<\/p>\n

Roupp, who pitched 4\u2154 innings on Friday in the Giants\u2019 5-1 loss to the Chicago Cubs, insisted his act wasn\u2019t intended to be hateful.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no hate at all,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just what I stand for and what I stand (on). I believe in God, and yeah, that\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked how he would respond to someone who considers his act hateful, Roupp said: \u201cFirst of all, as a believer, I would push them to read the Bible. I think God has blessed me in so many ways, and I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be here right now if it wasn\u2019t for him. So, yeah, like I said, there\u2019s no hate at all. We live in a country where you\u2019re welcome to believe what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

First-year Giants manager Tony Vitello<\/a> said he has been impressed by how much the Giants organization embraces the entire community. He added that individuals on the team have the freedom to do \u201cwhat they think is best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously the success hasn\u2019t been what I want it to be, but even I feel it \u2014 the way they give back and embrace the team is different,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cThe crowds are bigger in numbers, there\u2019s a unique vibe to each night when there is a community recognized.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Pride Night at Oracle Park, with the San Francisco Giants wearing special edition hats to represent the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[109586,101,4820,103,102,104,106,105,127],"class_list":["post-359511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-landen-roupp","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}