MILWAUKEE (AP) Jesse Winker homered twice, prized prospect Jose Garcia singled in his first big league at-bat and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1 Thursday in a doubleheader opener one day after both teams opted not to play to protest racial injustice.

The reactions by the teams followed the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee. Other major league teams have since followed, with seven games postponed Thursday.

”It’s been a long couple of days for us,” said Reds starter Sonny Gray. ”It’s been a bit of a long 48 hours, 24 hours, but we wanted to come out and play a good baseball game and walk away with the win.”

Winker had a two-run shot in the fifth, his eighth, to put the Reds up 5-0 and a solo shot in the third.

Gray (5-1) allowed four