Sources - Marlins cancel game as coronavirus spreads
Source: ESPN
The Miami Marlins' home opener against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday night has been canceled, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan, as coronavirus cases continue to pop up among the team.
Eight more players and two coaches with the Marlins have tested positive for coronavirus, as an outbreak has spread throughout their clubhouse and brought the total of cases in recent days to at least 14, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN.
The Marlins remain in Philadelphia and continue to undergo testing after their weekend series there.
On Sunday, four Marlins players tested positive for the coronavirus, including that day's starter, Jose Urena, according to sources familiar with the situation, leading the team to delay its postgame trip home amid concerns about a possible outbreak.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29546814/sources-marlins-cancel-game-virus-spreads
Well, it was nice for a weekend.
Also, Florida.
luvs2sing
(2,220 posts)They started the season on the road.
I love baseball but, damn, I wish they would shut it back down.
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Blues Heron
(5,898 posts)Fucking spreaders - gross.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Opening was a mistake...and I watch/listen to every Yankees' game!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Of course, those bubbles were AZ and FL, sooooooo......
I guess they ditched that idea in June and here we are.
EllieBC
(2,961 posts)IMO, baseball could have too. Break the league into 4 divisions and bubble them.
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)its not working whatever plan the sports teams are coming up with.................
BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)When I heard early in the series that one of the Marlins players tested positive, I was like, WTF? So now what??? But they played the next game and then the next game.
So now you have 14 players on the Marlins test positive and they just played 3 games here in Philly against the Phillies. So what happens now with the Phillies??????????????????? As it is, the cases have been slowly increasing here in the city due to the dumbasses running to shore house parties and bars in Jersey (because our bars in PA are CLOSED for indoor patrons unless food is served and only at a 25% capacity, and restaurants and bars COMPLETELY CLOSED for indoor patronage but outdoors is available in the city - they never did open for indoors for our "modified green" phase).
Same damn thing happened with the '76ers when this whole thing started back in March when they had just finished a game with the Pistons and it was found that a player on the Jazz tested positive and the Pistons had just played the Jazz before coming here to play the '76ers.
And the irony is that baseball is a naturally "socially distanced" game - but the disaster can happen in the dugout and if players are allowed to go "out" somewhere.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)Yes, dugouts are traditional. And they are "cozy", which is why they should not be used. With no spectators in the stadium the players could sit in the stands directly behind the dugouts, with the necessary social distancing but still gathered close enough for the manager to speak to all of them. The ground crews could put up awnings if they wanted shade and the semblance of an enclosure.
Resuming MLB games was an experiment, but not an unreasonable one to attempt. I assume the players who are participating are not in high risk groups, but if they can't adjust their behavior in light of the pandemic this experiment is doomed. They could use the locker room in shifts to avoid close contact, they can charter extra buses and flights during travel to cut down on cowding and risk. If they can't make Baseball work, no team sports should go on during this pandemic.
BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)the locker rooms were apparently worse. The Yankees had already started coming here and apparently brought in away-team staff to replace the Philly away-team staff who might have been exposed -
The Yankees were scheduled to open a two-game series Monday night, with the teams moving to New York for games Wednesday and Thursday. The Phillies fumigated the visiting clubhouse after the Marlins left, according to a source, and the Yankees reportedly brought a clubhouse staff from New York to replace Phillies staff members who are in quarantine.
https://www.inquirer.com/phillies/miami-marlins-coronavirus-outbreak-covid-19-philadelphia-yankees-20200727.html
The latest (includes a tweeted reply to the announcement) -
Link to tweet
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@Joelsherman1
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Jul 27, 2020
MLB has its scheduled call with all 30 owners today at about 12:30 pm Eastern. That suddenly is a different call than it would have been 48 hours ago.
OnDeckIC
@OnDeckIC
11:34 AM · Jul 27, 2020
Of course the CT is flying about why a certain "throwing out of the first pitch" at a Yankees game next month was "cancelled".
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Link to tweet
Travis Akers @travisakers
#BREAKING: Major League Baseball to hold an emergency meeting today after 14 Miami Marlins have tested positive for COVID-19 following their weekend series with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Travis Akers @travisakers
President Trump announced on Sunday that he would no longer be throwing out the first pitch for the Yankees in two weeks.
His announcement was 18 hours before the news broke to the public about the Miami Marlins outbreak.
10:26 AM · Jul 27, 2020
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)He will, watch.
BumRushDaShow
(127,310 posts)Have been texting one of my retired former coworkers who listens to our local Philly sports talk radio station and she said the Yankees were up next to play the Phillies here and they just cancelled.
OnlinePoker
(5,702 posts)40 players, 10-20 staff per sideline, all the officials. It's going to be Corona central.