Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has denied that the season is in trouble despite more than a dozen Marlins players and staff testing positive for the coronavirus, prompting the club to close in Philadelphia They have now been postponed three games due to the outbreak in the Marlins’ locker …
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PHILADELPHIA – Instead of preparing for Monday night’s game against the Phillies by submitting to saliva tests for COVID-19, attending meetings and watching videos of their at-bats at the team hotel, the Yankees spent the day locked up waiting to see how the same tests were performed. Taken by the …
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PHILADELPHIA – Anthony Santella, a public health scientist and health services researcher specializing in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, recalled his reaction upon learning of organized sports plans to return to action. “I thought, ‘We are moving too fast,'” Dr. Santella, who teaches at Hofstra University, said in …
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1:15 pm ET MLB InsidersESPN Major League Baseball is seeing its first coronavirus cancellations since the 2020 season restart. A COVID-19 outbreak spread throughout the Miami Marlins clubhouse, bringing the total number of cases in the past few days to at least 13, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse …
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Two Monday night MLB games were postponed due to a coronavirus outbreak among the Miami Marlins. The Marlins ‘home opener against the Baltimore Orioles is off, as is the Philadelphia Phillies’ home game against the New York Yankees. Miami just completed a series in Philadelphia, and seven more players and …
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