The normally chatty and opinionated Boston Red Sox television broadcasters gave the team's massive Black Lives Matter banners a good leaving alone when it came to commentary Friday night.
During the Opening Day broadcast, the festive Dave O'Brien, Jerry Remy, and Dennis Eckersley offered opinions on baseball strategy, Mookie Betts's new contract in Los Angeles, what they would do with $60 million after taxes, wardrobe sense, and even Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker's coronavirus performance (which they pronounced good). But the multiple Black Lives Matter displays drew a just-the-facts description from play-by-play guy O'Brien, followed by silence.
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker threw out one of three ceremonial first pitches for the first Opening Day the Boston Red Sox have ever played in late July – from the center field bleachers.
Baker, the tall one on the right of the screen, threw a left-handed pitch down onto the field, followed shortly by Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Robert Lewis Jr., founder and president of The BASE, an organization headquartered in Roxbury that promotes success in life in urban areas through baseball and academic achievement.
