After the Cincinnati Reds' 4-3 loss Friday in the second game of a doubleheader against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park, starting pitcher Trevor Bauer tweeted about a chance to win the cleats he wore during his start as a tribute to Harambe:
Before the game, he teased the cleats without showing them so that "uncle Rob" - MLB commissioner Rob Manfred - wouldn't "get mad and ban me from wearing them":
In May, Twitter users honored Harambe - the 17-year-old western lowland gorilla killed in 2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden by an emergency response team protecting a 3-year-old boy who fell into his exhibit.