The San Diego Padres wore special Mother’s Day jerseys and caps for Sunday’s game against the New York Mets at Petco Park, which is also Military Spouse Appreciation Day.

For the 11th consecutive year, the Major League Baseball dedicated Mother’s Day to the fight against breast cancer. For the first time, all teams had specially designed uniforms for Mother’s Day.

The Padres wore jerseys incorporating pink into their Sunday Navy digital camouflage jerseys and caps with a pink SD logo highlighted by a dark gray crown and brim.

Royalties from the sales of Mother’s Day jerseys and caps will be donated by Major League Baseball to Susan G. Komen, which describes itself as the world’s largest nonprofit source of funding for the fight against breast cancer.

All players and other on-field personnel in all of Sunday’s games displayed symbolic pink ribbons on their uniforms. Commemorative base jewels and dugout lineup cards were also pink. The Mother’s Day games were played using baseballs with pink stitching for the fourth consecutive year.

Many players used pink bats and pink Louisville Slugger bats stamped with the MLB breast cancer awareness logo.

Lots of game-used Louisville Slugger pink bats and other pink items from Mother’s Day games will be auctioned on Major League Baseball’s website, MLB.com, with proceeds helping to fight breast cancer.

Major League Baseball will later devote Father’s Day to the fight against prostate cancer, including teams wearing special Father’s Day jerseys and caps with light blue incorporated into the logos for the first time.

Christine Trimble, Qualcomm’s vice president of public affairs, was honored during pregame ceremonies as the Padres winner of the Major League Baseball’s Honorary Bat Girl initiative, which recognizes a fan who has been effected by breast cancer and has demonstrated a commitment in the fight against the disease.

Trimble was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in September 2014.

“Once I came to terms with my diagnosis, I realized there really weren’t options,” Trimble said. “I could cry or fight it. I could get angry or fight it. I could escape or fight it. No matter what, fighting it always won out, and somehow I began relying on strength I didn’t know I had to do just that.”

Trimble became Komen San Diego’s largest fundraiser, personally bringing in more than $36,000 to help provide breast cancer patients free mammograms, screenings, financial aid, meal deliveries and research.

For Military Spouse Appreciation Day, nine military spouses chosen by Blue Star Families greeted Padres starters at each position for Military Take the Field. Emmeline Turiano, wife of U.S Marine Corps Sgt. Alfred Turiano, sang “God Bless America” between halves of the seventh inning.

— City News Service