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A MINOR league baseball team has forfeited a game after several players refused to wear Pride Night jerseys.
The York Revolution, based in Pennsylvania, had been scheduled to play the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs on Thursday.
For the past 11 years, the team have organized a Pride Night game.
This year, the Revolution had arranged for uniforms with rainbow sleeves.
But the team announced several of its stars had refused to wear it.
Unfortunately, several of our players have refused to wear the scheduled Pride Night jersey, a statement from the team read.
READ MORE ON MLB The club decided that hosting the event is more important than forcing players to wear jerseys they are not comfortable with and playing the game.
As a result, and out of respect for the Pride Community and the York community as a whole, the York Revolution has decided that the game on Thursday, June 18 will be forfeited.
Pride Night will continue on as the feature element of the evening at WellSpan Park.
The team also announced they would be making a sizeable donation to a local LGBTQIA+ charity.
To be clear, this action by the players is completely inconsistent with our vision as the Most Welcoming Place in York, the statement added.
As a small token of our regret for the last-minute change of plans and support for our LGBTQIA+ representing partners we are making a $10,000 donation to the Rainbow Rose Center.
[This will] support and further their work in making sure the York community is as inclusive as we strive to make WellSpan Park in York, Pennsylvania.
The Revolution and Blue Crabs play in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
Neither are not affiliated with any MLB clubs.
In the majors, there was controversy this week in the series between the Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants.
Giants pitchers Landen Roupp and JT Brubaker wrote Bible verses on caps which had been given to them for Pride Month.
While another Giants pitcher, Sam Hentges, chose not to wear the cap at all.
The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations, MLB chief communications officer Pat Courtney said in response..