MLB issues warning to Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps [View all]

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Source: New York Times

MLB issues warning to Giants pitchers who wrote Bible verses on Pride Night caps


Landen Roupp was one of three pitchers who appeared during Friday night's game with Bible verses written on their caps. Scott Marshall / Associated Press

By Steve Berman
June 15, 2026 Updated 8:14 pm EDT

After three San Francisco Giants pitchers appeared in Friday’s game with Bible verses written on their Pride Night caps, Major League Baseball issued a warning that similar behavior will not be tolerated. ... “The writing on the cap violates our rules, and consistent with normal practice, we have warned the players about future violations,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s chief communications officer, told The Athletic in a statement that Outsports first reported. (1)

Giants right-hander Landen Roupp started the game with “Gen 9:12-16” written on his cap, with the end of the verse bleeding into the rainbow “SF” logo. Relievers JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker also had Bible verses on their caps, while Sam Hentges came out of the bullpen with the Giants’ standard black cap with an orange logo rather than the Pride Night hat.

“It’s just about God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us that, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” Roupp told reporters when asked about the Bible passage. “That’s just kind of something I believe in, and I stand firm in that, and I’m thankful we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want … and express what we want.”

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The Giants were the first professional sports team to host a game that raised awareness and money for the HIV/AIDS epidemic with “Until There’s a Cure Day” in 1994. And in 2021, they became the first team to incorporate the rainbow colorway on their on-field caps for their annual Pride game.

Steve Berman is a senior editor and writer for The Athletic. He edits MLB content and focuses his writing on Bay Area sports, with an emphasis on local media. Before joining The Athletic he founded Bay Area Sports Guy, which became the top independent site in the region, and covered local sports for Bay Area News Group and NBC Sports Bay Area.
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/steve-berman/

(1) https://www.outsports.com/2026/6/15/24136606/san-francisco-giants-pride-night-cap-bible-verse-mlb-response/

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7364268/2026/06/15/sf-giants-pride-night-caps-bible-verses-mlb-warning/