A Black Lives Matter / MLB squad will appear on the pitcher’s mound during the first games of the weekend, the Washington Nationals announced Wednesday.
“The Nationals, along with Major League Baseball, join the Black Lives Matter movement and will use the platform and the national stage of Opening Day to express their support for the fight against systemic racism and injustice,” the team said in a Announcement of your opening day plans.
The statement said that all teams would have the Black Lives Matter squad during games this weekend.
Additional elements of Thursday’s opening of the season shortened by the pandemic between the New York Yankees and the Nationals will honor, remember and celebrate frontline heroes in the fight against the coronavirus, the Nationals said.
The team had already announced that Dr. Anthony Fauci will launch the first ceremonial launch.
Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House coronavirus task force, and has been one of the faces in the United States’ fight against the pandemic.
He’s also a big fan of the Nationals, often wearing a face mask with team logos, and when the MLB season was on hiatus, he talked about wanting to see them play again.
Before the game, the Nationals will hoist a 2019 World Series Champions flag in the center field plaza.
Nationals ace Max Scherzer is slated to start against likely Yankees starter Gerrit Cole, who signed a 10-year, $ 324 million contract with New York in free agency last winter.
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