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So, yesterday wasn’t fun for anyone.

Here’s the news from Nats Park:

Nationals’ Trea Turner is the latest MLB player to have ugly tweets uncovered (WaPo)
Turner sent the tweets while he was playing at NC State. They included homophobic slurs and were deleted. Turner is a representative of MLB's anti-bullying initiative "Shred Hate."

Statements from Nationals, Trea Turner (MLB)
Turner has issued the following statement: "There are no excuses for my insensitive and offensive language on Twitter. I am sincerely sorry for those tweets and apologize wholeheartedly.