File this with the “It took this long?” Department: On Thursday, the Tampa Bay Rays became the first team in Major League Baseball history to start a batting lineup consisting of all Latino players, CBS News reports.
The feat took place on the day the league honors Roberto Clemente day, remembering the Puerto Rican player for the Pittsburgh Pirates who died on a humanitarian flight to help earthquake victims in Nicaragua in 1971. All the Latino players on the Rays wore Clemente’s number 21 on their jerseys to commemorate the day.
According to MLB.com, the starting lineup was: Yandy Díaz and Randy Arozarena from Cuba; Wander Franco, Manuel Margot and Jose Siri from the Dominican Republic; Harold Ramírez from Colombia; David Peralta and René Pinto from Venezuela; and Isaac Paredes from Mexico. (The pitcher, a position that no longer bats, was Shane McClanahan of Baltimore, Maryland.)