The Arizona Diamondbacks played at Fenway Park on Wednesday — defeating the Boston Red Sox on the road 7-6 after nine innings. Spectators gathering for the major league matchup in Beantown also paid respect to Indigenous peoples.
The busy streets of Boston surrounding Fenway were filled with drum circles and fans wearing special, medicine wheel-inspired gameday jerseys featuring back nameplates that read: “STILL HERE.”
Even Navajo Nation Vice President Richelle Montoya was in the crowd — cheering on Red Sox infielder Anthony Seigler. Born in Fort Defiance, Arizona, the 2018 first-round draft pick by the New York Yankees made his MLB debut last year after being called up by the Milwaukee Brewers.
His long-awaited ascension to the majors is historic, because Seigler, 27, becomes the second-ever Navajo pro baseballer — behind Jacoby Ellsbury, the trailblazing former Yankees and Red Sox outfielder.
“What are the odds that happens, the only two to be up here and do it?” said Seigler in a postgame interview with NESN. “Hopefully we’re not the last ... Having the whole Navajo Nation behind me is really special.”
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