Mets and MLB Highlight Black Lives Matter

After weeks of nationwide social injustice protests and a delayed season start, MLB used Opening Day 2020 to highlight Black Lives Matter. Teams bolstered the message with warm-up shirts, jersey patches, stadium displays and other tributes. The awareness continued nearly a month later on August 27, following the police shooting death of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Mets and Miami Marlins players held a 42-second moment of silence and jointly walked off the field, leaving only a BLM shirt on home plate. “It’s still overwhelming at this moment, just to see how moved my peers are, my teammates, my brothers, the front office, the coaching staff, everybody who talks to me on a daily basis,” said Dominic Smith, who led the Mets onto the field before the protest. “Just to see how moved they were, it made me feel really good inside. It made me feel like we are on the right path of change.”