![]() The Yankees-Phillies game tonight has indeed been cancelled. It’s time for the commissioner to do the right thing, as painful as it may be. The decision on what to do with the season is entirely in Rob Manfred’s hands. There are too many people’s health up in the air - players, coaches, staff members, clubhouse attendants, hotel workers, flight staff, etc - to keep this going. But we saw Sunday they cannot be trusted. If the league could be trusted to do the right thing, I might advocate for a temporary shutdown of the teams who could be affected to keep this season going to the finish line. This seems like a good time to mention that not all of those positive Marlins tests are asymptomatic, too. And, of course, we know first hand that this is a serious virus even for those that recover given that Eduardo Rodriguez, a healthy 27-year-old, is dealing with potentially very serious heart conditions after fighting the virus earlier this month. Even if they can manage to stop this outbreak with the Marlins - and again, their decision to play on Sunday demonstrates that they are not showing the best judgement with respect to players’ and personnel’s health - we see the major risk for other outbreaks around the league. This is how league-wide outbreaks happen.īut really, serious thought needs to be given to shutting the whole thing down. You don’t want a potentially infected team traveling to yet another city, to another visiting clubhouse, and to another hotel. ![]() Even having the Phillies go play in New York as the home team is a problem until we know their test results. At the very least, MLB has to keep the Phillies and Yankees from playing. This is just one outbreak and if the league plays things cautiously right now they may be able to limit this specific outbreak as much as possible, but it’s hard to imagine if this happened already that it will be the last. On top of that, the Yankees are scheduled to head to Philadelphia tonight to start a series. Plus, as Alex Speier pointed out, this has also put hotel staffers where the Marlins were staying in jeopardy. Not only are there all of these positive cases on the Marlins, but we are awaiting to see how this has affected the Phillies. There were already signs of a breakout on the Marlins heading into Sunday’s game against the Phillies and the two teams played anyway. It took one weekend to see that as the case, and we also saw that the league is not disciplined enough to make the right decisions here. MLB was always going to try and make this comeback, but the reality is that without a bubble like the NBA has, it was going to be extremely difficult to make things work. It’s obviously the right call to cancel this game, and at this point the idea of canceling the season has to be on the table, and it should be the call that is made. Here is the full schedule in all its glory.The Marlins' home opener against the Baltimore Orioles tonight has been canceled, sources tell ESPN, as the team remains in Philadelphia and continues to undergo testing.- Jeff Passan July 27, 2020 The Tigers’ final 16 games of the season are against AL Central foes.The Tigers will get most of their West Coast travel out of the way in a six-week period between May and June, with only a mid-week trip to Los Angeles remaining in early July before the All-Star break.The Tigers will see the Padres and Rockies at home, the Diamondbacks and Dodgers on the road, and the Giants and Pirates in both home and away series. ![]()
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