FILE - This March 24, 2012 file photo, shows Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Yunel Escobar warming up before a spring training baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, in Dunedin, Fla. Major League Baseball is checking reports that Escobar played Saturday's, Sept. 15, 2012 game against Boston wearing eye-black displaying a homophobic slur written in Spanish. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)