{"id":37740,"date":"2025-09-11T17:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37740"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T17:52:51","slug":"yankees-honor-charlie-kirk-with-moment-of-silence-in-pregame-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=37740","title":{"rendered":"Yankees honor Charlie Kirk with moment of silence in pregame scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees held a moment of silence before their game against the Detroit Tigers for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-shooting-suspect-arrested-in-utah-fbi\/\">Charlie Kirk following his assassination<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKirk founded the youth activist group \u2018Turning Point USA\u2019 and had become a fixture on college campuses,\u201d the team\u2019s account posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCharlie Kirk, a husband and father of two children, was 31 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/detroit-tigers-vs-new-york-111116486.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"The Yankees held a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025.\" data-modal-image=\"37081745\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/02\/us-news\/trump-set-to-attend-yankees-game-on-9-11-anniversary-sources\/\">President Trump will attend Thursday\u2019s Yankees<\/a>\u00a0game in the Bronx on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/10\/us-news\/trump-reacts-after-conservative-activist-charlie-kirk-shot-at-uvu-event\/\">Trump condemned the shocking killing<\/a> of Kirk at Utah Valley University, where he was on his The American Comeback Tour.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 1em auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/us-president-donald-trump-shakes-111103804_699f90.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"President Donald Trump shaking hands with Charlie Kirk.\" data-modal-image=\"37078352\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah,\u201d\u00a0Trump said in a video from behind the Resolute desk and posted to Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to call it a \u201cdark moment for America\u201d and blamed the \u201cradical left\u201d for inflammatory rhetoric against Kirk and others on the right.<\/p>\n<p>The Yankees have warned fans ahead of Thursday night\u2019s game to arrive early with extra security measures in place.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"max-width: 100%; display: block; margin: 1.5em auto; aspect-ratio: 16 \/ 9;\" title=\"Video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4jM4VG9G9Y?version=3&amp;rel=1&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;fs=1&amp;hl=en-US&amp;autohide=2&amp;wmode=transparent\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTicketed guests are strongly urged to arrive as early as possible and should budget extra time for entry due to enhanced security measures at all Yankee Stadium gates and entrances,\u201d the team wrote on X.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-nyp-editor-universal-promo\">\n<div class=\"universal-promo__inner\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" module module--precede-with-border module--follow-with-border wp-block-nypost-editor-protected-embed\"><\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s presence at the U.S. Open caused the start of the final between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner to be delayed by half an hour on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It is the final game of a three-game series between the Yankees and Tigers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit dominated the first two games of the series, outscoring the Yankees 23-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Yankees held a moment of silence before their game against the Detroit Tigers for\u00a0Charlie Kirk following his assassination on Wednesday. \u201cKirk founded the youth activist group \u2018Turning Point &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37742,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37740\/revisions\/37742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}