A pair of Major League Baseball games scheduled for tonight have been cancelled due to COVID-19.
Tonight’s Miami Marlins‘ home opener against the Baltimore Orioles has been canceled after eight Marlins players and two coaches tested positive for COVID-19.
At the same time, Tonight’s Yankees – Phillies game has also been cancelled because Miami played in Philidelphia yesterday, minus four players who tested positive just before the game. Major League Baseball and the Phillie’s organization didn’t want to put the visiting Yankee’s team at risk in the same dressing rooms just vacated by the Marlins.
The abbreviated MLB season is just four days old. Other games scheduled for tonight will go ahead.
Updating the Miami Marlins’ outbreak: The total number of infected players is 11 of the 33 who have been traveling with the team and two coaches, sources tell ESPN.
The Marlins-Orioles and Yankees-Phillies games tonight have been postponed. For now, the rest may be played.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) July 27, 2020
