The Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays shared facts about gun violence instead of baseball on their Twitter timelines during Thursday night’s game.
“In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Rays, we will be using our channel to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence,” the Yankees said in a statement before first pitch. “The devastating events that have taken place in Uvalde, Buffalo and countless other communities across our nation are tragedies that are intolerable.”
On Tuesday, an 18-year-old fatally shot 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Ten days earlier, a white teenager targeted a Black grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., for his own rampage, killing 10 people and wounding three more.
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