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- Updated: April 28, 2016
BALTIMORE — Almost one year ago to the day, the White Sox played a game unlike any other in the history of Major League Baseball, and for those who participated in it, it’s a contest they’ll never forget.
In the aftermath of riots in Baltimore surrounding the death of Freddie Gray and a city-wide curfew, MLB took the unusual step, after back-to-back postponements, of moving the April 29 game between the White Sox and Orioles from a night game to the afternoon, and it was played in front of an empty stadium.
“It was just odd,” White Sox manager Robin Ventura recalled. “Obviously, the situation around the city was a lot different when we got here. Just an odd game. I can’t think of any other time where you — you have to go back to American Legion and things like that to feel like you had a game …
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