The San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t play their scheduled game on Wednesday night. They joined four other MLB teams, the entirety of the NBA and WNBA, and the bulk of MLS in choosing not to play, as a sign of protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake — a Black man from Kenosha, Wisconsin — on Sunday.
The Giants didn’t handle media relations tremendously well immediately following the decision. Only one member of the organization was made available to the media Wednesday night: manager Gabe Kapler, who tried to walk the tightrope given to him as the lone voice of a team comprised of dozens of people who likely had dozens of different viewpoints.