Certainly didn't take long for Covid-19 to rear it's ugly head in Major League Baseball's 60-game season.
On Saturday, just two games in, four members of the Miami Marlins tested positive. The Marlins went ahead with their game Sunday. And now we're up to nearly a dozen positive cases on the team. Scheduled to start a two-game series in Baltimore, the Marlins team was still in Philadelphia as this is being written.
Of course, their opening game in Miami has been scratched. And the scheduled game tonight between the New York Yankees and the Phillies in Philadelphia has been postponed.
Since MLB was trying to get 60 games played in roughly 67 days, any sort of delay, be it weather or sickness, makes things dicey.
The obvious question: If games are cancelled, and can't be made up, does the team forced to cancel (in this case, Miami) forfeit the game? If the team is sidelined for, say, six games, are they all forfeits, and count as wins for their opponents?
Don't see how can handle it any other way. You can bet the suits in MLB's headquarters are trying to get a handle on it right now.
Who knew this season might come down to a war of attrition, with the last healthy team left standing claiming the championship?
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