The Philadelphia Phillies and Miami Marlins will have seven games in a five-day span as part of the new schedule that Major League Baseball announced Thursday to reschedule the 21 games postponed by the coronavirus pandemic in the first two weeks of the season.
The Marlins, whose season was suspended for more than a week due to an outbreak within the team, will end the season with 27 games in 23 days, a stretch in which they will have no rest days and will play four doubleheader in a span of 10 days.
Miami was already scheduled to host Philadelphia for a four-game series Sept. 10-13. The series was extended to include a game on Monday, September 14, and doubleheader for that Friday and Sunday.
MLB reduced doubleheader to a pair of seven innings this year to keep pitchers rested during the compact 60-game schedule, which has been further adjusted with the goal of rescheduling all postponed games.
The Red Sox’s scheduled visit to Miami for Sept. 14 was delayed one day to accommodate the seven-game series against the Phillies. The Marlins also have three doubleheader plans with the Nationals – on August 22, September 18 and September 20 – to make up for last weekend’s postponed games.
The Phillies will have a doubleheader against the Toronto Blue Jays on August 20 and September 18, as well as a new doubleheader at home against Boston on September 8.
The St. Louis Cardinals, who have not been active since July 31 due to an outbreak, have an additional three double games against the Brewers, in addition to a previously scheduled series, to make up for the three missed games. out the weekend before. Milwaukee will receive doubleheader on September 18 and 20, and will be the administrative venue in the first of the two meetings in St. Louis on September 25.
The Cardinals will make up their series this week against the Detroit Tigers with double games on Aug. 13 and Sept. 10. St. Louis was scheduled to face the Chicago White Sox at Iowa’s “Field of Dreams” on Aug. 13. Instead, both teams will meet a day later in Chicago. (GG) (Taken from MLB in Spanish)