In addition to being postponed to Friday’s opener, the rest of this weekend’s subway series between the New York Yankees and New York Mets has been called off due to positive testing for the coronavirus.
Two members of the Mets organization – one player and one staff member, according to Jeff Passan of ESPN and multiple reports – tested positive. Major League Baseball said the weekend series at Citi Field was postponed “out of an overabundance of caution” and to conduct additional tests.
The Mets’ game against the Miami Marlins on Thursday was also postponed. The Mets flew home Thursday night and are in New York. The two who tested positive remained in Miami.
The positive tests are the first confirmed within the Mets organization since the season began. Judge Brad Brach missed camp for press season and confirmed he had positive tests for the coronavirus.
The league has now postponed 36 games this season due to positive tests with the Mets, Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Reds. The Yankees have twice suspended their schedule despite reporting zero positive tests since opening day.
MLB said Friday that seven of 12,485 samples collected from players and coaches returned positive COVID-19 results last week, a positive rate of 0.05%.
Three of the positives were players and four were staff members. Of all the samples collected by MLB this season, 0.1% returned positive, and 19 teams tested positive as a player as a staff member.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
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