The York Revolution will forfeit its Thursday, June 18 home game after several players refused to wear Pride Night jerseys. The club said Pride Night activities will continue at WellSpan Park as a free-admission event and it will donate $10,000 to an area LGBTQA+ resource center. Fans holding Thursday tickets can redeem them for a future date.
WellSpan Park and Pride Night
The announcement came on Wednesday, the day before the scheduled game against Southern Maryland, when the club said it would not play the June 18 contest because of those refusals. The York Revolution said Pride Night would continue as the feature element of the evening at WellSpan Park, and that fans with tickets for the forfeited game could exchange them for a future date.
Rainbow Rose Center Partnership
The club framed the decision alongside long-standing partnerships with the Rainbow Rose Center and JLS Automation and described the move as consistent with its stated goal as the Most Welcoming Place in York. In place of the game the team said it will make a $10,000 donation to an area LGBTQA+ resource center.
Southern Maryland Game Forfeit
The York Revolution said the current roster has just two players with scant major league service time. The club said it was more important to host Pride Night than to force players to wear jerseys they were not comfortable with, yet it still forfeited the game after the refusals. That contradiction — preserving the event while canceling the competitive contest — shaped the club's message and the fan options announced on Wednesday.
One named individual listed in the broader set of facts is Landen Roupp, a San Francisco Giants pitcher. The mention of specific players outside the roster detail did not include any player-level attribution to the refusals; the team described the matter as stemming from "several players" choosing not to wear the commemorative jerseys.
Major League Baseball has used the Atlantic League in recent years to trial rule changes, a background note the club included while explaining its place in the independent-league landscape. York sits roughly an hour's drive north of Baltimore in south central Pennsylvania, and the club positioned the decision around community partnerships rather than an on-field compromise.
Which specific players refused to wear the Pride Night jerseys?
