The St. Louis Cardinals would team up for three to five days to fight the COVID-19 epidemic on the team.
Mark Saxon of The Athletic reported that the team’s next series with the Pittsburgh Pirates, scheduled to begin on Monday, will likely be canceled.
Cardinals have already postponed 12 games, with 16 members of the organization (nine players) undergoing coronavirus tests. They are the moment when the MLB team is facing a primary coronavirus outbreak; The Miami Marlins returned to play on Tuesday after postponing six games.
For the Cardinals, that’s when he’ll probably resume his season.
“I don’t know what the right answer is. Is it two days, it’s five days, is it 10 days or is it two weeks? The whole country, the whole world, faces those same problems,” said John Mozeliak, baseball operations. he told Saxon. “We’re stuck in the middle. That’s why it’s a pandemic.”
The other question is whether the cardinals took the mandatory precautions once the positive instances began to register. The team began isolating itself on July 31 after the first positive tests, through Saxon, but met on Wednesday.
Every time they return, they will face a fast-paced schedule, with 55 games and only 49 days remaining in the normal MLB season (and that’s whether the series opposed to pirates is rarely canceled). Given the already nature of the shortened season of 60 games, the Cardinals face an exclusive and potentially grueling challenge of games when, or if, they replay.
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