{"id":75228,"date":"2026-06-23T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/manfred-defends-mlbs-response-to-bible-verses-on-players-pride-caps\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:54:58","slug":"manfred-defends-mlbs-response-to-bible-verses-on-players-pride-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/manfred-defends-mlbs-response-to-bible-verses-on-players-pride-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"Manfred defends MLB\u2019s response to Bible verses on players\u2019 Pride caps"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on hats<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>MLB had warned players over violation of league rules<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has defended the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/16\/mlb-critical-of-giants-players-who-wrote-bible-verses-on-pride-night-caps\">league\u2019s policy over Pride celebrations<\/a> in a letter to Republican senator Josh Hawley.<\/p>\n<p>Most of MLB\u2019s 30 teams celebrate Pride month with a themed game to acknowledge the LGBTQ community and its baseball fans. During a 12 June game against the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/16\/mlb-critical-of-giants-players-who-wrote-bible-verses-on-pride-night-caps\">wrote Bible verses on their hats<\/a>, which featured the Giants\u2019 logo in rainbow colors, while pitcher Sam Hentges chose not to wear the themed cap at all.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jun\/23\/manfred-defends-mlbs-response-to-bible-verses-on-players-pride-caps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Giants pitchers wrote Bible verses on hats MLB had warned players over violation of league rules MLB commissioner Rob Manfred has defended the league\u2019s policy over Pride celebrations in a letter to Republican senator Josh Hawley. Most of MLB\u2019s 30 teams celebrate Pride month with a themed game to acknowledge the LGBTQ community &#8230; <a title=\"Manfred defends MLB\u2019s response to Bible verses on players\u2019 Pride caps\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/manfred-defends-mlbs-response-to-bible-verses-on-players-pride-caps\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Manfred defends MLB\u2019s response to Bible verses on players\u2019 Pride caps\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}