Dodgers’ Blake Treinen skips rainbow cap during Pride Night

Blake Treinen appeared for one pitch in the Dodgers’ Pride Night game versus the Angels without wearing the rainbow cap worn by his teammates, a detail fans highlighted online. The Dodgers still won 1-0 on a Freddie Freeman walk-off home run.

Friday evening in Los Angeles had the kind of sparkle Pride Night is built on—rainbow caps across the dugout, teammates matching the message together. Then Blake Treinen walked out for his moment, and the cap he left the bullpen with looked different.

The Dodgers’ pitcher entered at the top of the ninth against their crosstown rivals, the Los Angeles Angels. He faced a single pitch—enough to force Oswald Peraza to ground out and end the inning—but when Treinen made his way back out. the ‘LA’ on his blue cap was in standard white lettering rather than the rainbow colors worn by the rest of the team.

Treinen, 37, stayed on the field for that one confrontation, yet the visual caught attention immediately. One fan posted on X after sharing footage of the pitcher heading onto the field. writing that every player on the Dodgers wore Pride hats and that Treinen was the only one not wearing a Pride cap when he entered.

This wasn’t the first time a Dodgers player has drawn attention by seemingly placing himself apart from Pride celebrations. Last year, Clayton Kershaw wrote a reference to a Bible verse on his Pride hat, next to the rainbow lettering he was helping promote.

Treinen’s cap from this latest Pride Night carried its own message. The World Series winner had inscribed ‘Gen 9:12-16’ on the cap—words taken from the Bible describing the rainbow as a sign of God’s covenant rather than a Pride symbol. The passage reads: ‘And God said. “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you. for all future generations: I have set my bow in the cloud. and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.”‘.

Treinen did not directly reference the Bible during the game’s apparent gesture. But he has spoken openly about his faith before. including in an interview with CBN Sports during the Dodgers’ playoff-run to World Series victory last October. In that conversation. he said. ‘I think my family’s name is great in the eyes of God. but in the eyes of the world. nobody really knew the Treinens. and I don’t really care if they do.’ He added that repaying a gift from God is about honoring Him with how he lives. saying. ‘Every single one of us have been given a gift and our way of repaying it to the Lord is how do we honor him with that gift?’.

When he described what he wanted to hear after death. Treinen said he wanted the words. ‘Job well done. good and faithful servant.’ He also spoke about his life goal being ‘to make heaven crowded’ and said he didn’t want ‘teammates or anybody in the stands or anybody in this world face the alternative.’.

For Dodgers fans, the on-field outcome still came first. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wore his cap in the dugout during the game against the Angels. Treinen’s one pitch came and went. and shortly after—after he got Peraza out—Freddie Freeman struck a walk-off home run to give Los Angeles a 1-0 victory on Friday night.

The Dodgers now shift to two more matchups against the Angels before heading on the road to Pittsburgh for a three-game series against the Pirates starting Tuesday. They sit 41-23 in the National League West. eight wins ahead of second-place Arizona Diamondbacks. and are seen by many as the leading choice to win a third straight World Series later this year.

Treinen did not comment after the game about his apparent choice. In the hours since. the contrast between the rainbow caps worn by his teammates and the white ‘LA’ on his own has become the story fans can’t stop replaying—whether it was a statement or simply a personal decision made visible on baseball’s most public stage.

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