Major League Baseball postponed the entire series of games that the Mets and Yankees were supposed to play this weekend in New York because of several cases of coronavirus within the Mets.
The decision was made “in an abundance of caution and to allow for additional testing and contact tracing within the New York Mets organization,” Major League Baseball explained in a statement.
On Thursday, Major League Baseball announced that two members of the Mets organization had tested positive for coronavirus, prompting them to postpone the team’s game that same day against the Marlins in Miami and the first in the series. against the Yankees on Friday.
Now, the Major Leagues also postponed the rest of the games of the Mets and Yankees series that were to be held on Saturday and Sunday.
According to ESPN, the Mets members who tested positive for COVID-19 are a player and a staff member, who have not been identified.
The latest postponements came just minutes after Major League Baseball and the Players Association announced the results of the coronavirus tests applied to the teams last week, with seven positive cases among 12,485 tests, a rate of 0.05%.
Three of the positives were players and four were staff members, with neither team or identity being revealed. AFP (HN)