{"id":209136,"date":"2025-09-08T02:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209136\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:43:10","slug":"diamondbacks-wear-cleats-designed-by-kids-from-phoenix-childrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209136\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks wear cleats designed by kids from Phoenix Children&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX \u2014 In honor of Children Cancer Awareness Day around Major League Baseball, the Arizona Diamondbacks wore cleats during Sunday\u2019s game against the Boston Red Sox designed by patients from Phoenix Children\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-diamondbacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Diamondbacks<\/a> players visited the hospital a couple weeks ago with gear for the kids to get creative with. The cleats have unique patterns and drawings, along with messages such as \u201ctoo goated\u201d in Blaze Alexander\u2019s case or \u201cstrike 3 loser\u201d for Corbin Burnes.<\/p>\n<p>The game-worn cleats are up for <a href=\"https:\/\/dbacks.auctions.mlb.com\/presale-blaze-alexander-game-usedteam-issued-childhood\/isynmv1\/aucd\/5857787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">auction<\/a> online with proceeds going toward cancer research.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DOUJOVckkoS\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday is a great day for us to recognize those that are fighting the fight every single day,\u201d Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. \u201cA very dear friend of mine\u2019s niece is battling leukemia. She doesn\u2019t deserve that. We\u2019re there to support her and love her the best way that we know how. I think that should be the theme today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all gonna be wearing sneakers today that were designed by some of the children over at PCH. We\u2019re gonna sell those at auction, try and raise some money. Let\u2019s go ahead and find a way to do our part to find a cure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Diamondbacks donated $100,000 to PCH.<\/p>\n<p>September has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.googleadservices.com\/pagead\/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=DChsSEwi76qC7xcePAxUzJUQIHZCYHJoYACICCAEQABoCZHo&amp;co=1&amp;ase=2&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjw2vTFBhAuEiwAFaScwu4-nkRYdf5BO-P934ioueaJXIJiGnarrAXWf1pbCUroo8ZOwSGGrBoC9M8QAvD_BwE&amp;ohost=www.google.com&amp;cid=CAESVeD2Y6yGea_JGiW0WTsWhp4r7UzX5Oyy-I3opUbHyMc-xlFW1xpAzvPrcOY-UgmlwsZF5cmpRcdnE8612QA13IxlPCH7c68d0nspaiqGu3R_wCjypVE&amp;category=acrcp_v1_40&amp;sig=AOD64_2v6MOOsiz88eyk2N2jOWt2mGmLnA&amp;q&amp;nis=4&amp;adurl&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjp7Ju7xcePAxXGkO4BHeCPKWkQ0Qx6BAgXEAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Child Cancer Awareness Month<\/a> since 2012 to raise awareness and funding for research and treatment. Major league teams wore gold ribbons on their uniforms on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 In honor of Children Cancer Awareness Day around Major League Baseball, the Arizona Diamondbacks wore cleats&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":209137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1846,1587,316,1589,1845,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-209136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115166380583195647","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}