Editor’s note: This story contains details of a mass casualty event and gun violence.
In the wake of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas earlier this week, San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler announced that he will no longer be coming out to the field for the national anthem prior to his team’s games.
Kapler said that this will be his protocol until “[he] feels better about the direction of the country,” he told reporters in Cincinnati on Friday.
Kapler has been outspoken regarding the state of the country’s gun violence, including penning an essay on his personal website Kaplerstyle.