Thursday was supposed to be about baseball, about returning to semi-normal despite a country that is nothing and a sport that has been reduced to its studs. No fans, no scouts, no handshakes? No problem. There would be at least nine innings for the Yankees-Nationals, a few hours in which we could perhaps forget about the pandemic’s troubles and see new New Yorker Gerrit Cole take on the defending world champions for the first time since facing them as an Astro. Houston in the World Series. But hours before Opening Day, Nationals star Juan Soto, one of baseball’s most promising young talents, received a positive test and there he was: all the challenges of a 60-game season were summed up clearly, a blow from suction for the Washington list. around baseball.
Except maybe it wasn’t. A positive test in an era of false positives with a virus we still know little about meant that Soto was quickly pulled out for more. The gardener, who …
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