Two weekend Major League Baseball games between the New York Mets and New York Yankees were postponed Friday following two COVID-19 positive tests ...
There will be no runners on the bases this weekend in New York after Major League Baseball games between the Mets and Yankees were postponed due to two COVID-19 positives in the Mets organization AFP/DENIS POROYNEW YORK: Two weekend Major League Baseball games between the New York Mets and New York Yankees were postponed Friday following two COVID-19 positive tests within the Mets organization.
The move was made, according to an MLB statement,"out of an abundance of caution and to allow for additional testing and contact tracing to be performed."MLB said two individuals in the Mets organization tested positive for coronavirus, with multiple media reports saying they included one player and one staff member.
The Mets already had their game with Miami on Thursday and the planned"Subway Series" opener with the Yankees on Friday postponed as a result of the coronavirus positives. The latest postponements came only minutes after MLB an its players union announced the latest COVID-19 test results through Thursday, with seven positives among 12,485 tests, a 0.05 per cent positive rate.
Three of the positives were players and four were staff members, with no individuals or clubs revealed.Of 78,612 total monitoring samples collected, 82 have tested positive, a 0.1 per cent ratio, with 54 of those being players.
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