The team was on its way to catch a flight to Cleveland when players’ phones starting buzzing with messages from concerned love ones. A memorial has sprung up along the stretch of Yonge Street in Toronto where Monday’s deadly van attack occurred. Major League Baseball’s Commissioner Rob Manfred, in Toronto for Tuesday’s game, said baseball as a whole is devastated by the attack. “I hope that the game tonight will provide maybe a little bit of the beginning of a healing process that will be important for the city. “It’s just another reason for us to give one ounce more tomorrow than maybe we thought the day before.”

Source: thestar April 24, 2018 23:26 UTC