Nick Burdi Launches MLB Blood Donation Challenge

Pirates reliever Nick Burdi and his wife, Rebecca, were watching the news on Thursday when they heard U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams call on healthy young people to donate blood amid the national emergency created by the coronavirus pandemic. About an hour after that, the #MLBbloodDonationChallenge began on Burdi’s social media accounts.

“We thought getting it out there and spreading the awareness of what it can do and who we can help,” Burdi said. “We’re not playing right now, so using our platform to start helping people across America, we thought, was the right thing to do.”