It was “not immediately clear how the individual who brought the banner in got it past security.” MLB Photos via Getty Images
The Nationals have “banned at least one individual from Nationals Park” after he “unfurled a sign during Sunday’s game that directed fans to a white nationalist website.” An usher “attempted to confiscate the banner soon after it was unfurled” in the upper deck down the first-base line, but the “three individuals holding onto the sign pulled it back before eventually fleeing the premises.” The incident “occurred during the team’s daily ‘Salute to Service,’” which honors veterans and military personnel and is held before the fourth inning. It was “not immediately clear how the individual who brought the banner in got it past security” (THE ATHLETIC, 5/17).