Sports Illustrated reports that minor league pitcher Solomon Bates publicly came out as gay in an Instagram post on Tuesday, the same week that he was released by the Giants, and is the second minor league baseball player to publicly come out as gay after David Denson did so in 2015. Read more a .
Brett Auerbach’s four-hit performance and three home runs rocketed the Richmond Flying Squirrels to an 8-1 victory against the New Hampshire Fisher Cats.