The season opener between the Washington Nationals and MLB team New York Mets was put off on Friday, with Mike Rizzo, Nationals general manager, saying a fourth playing member of the team has returned positive for COVID-19.
Along with the positive COVID-19 results, five other Nationals players and one member of staff are in quarantine having had contact with the positive cases, as the fallout from a coronavirus outbreak has cast into doubt and question when Washington's campaign will start. The Nationals are still expecting the results of Thursday's COVID tests, and this could affect the odds being offered by new usa online casino ahead of time.
Rizzo said in a video call, "We're in crisis management mode."
Positive COVID tests from 3 players of Nationals and a fourth player whose result returned inconclusively led to the postponement of their scheduled season-opening match on Thursday. Matches on Saturday as well as Sunday were put off as well and will be played sometime in the season, as the clubs are billed to play 19 matches against each other as National League East rivals.
When next Washington will play their first will depend on the results of contact tracing the club has undertaken in the wake of the recent COVID-19 outbreak. Players and staff of Nationals have remained in isolation in recent days, and Rizzo suggests they will get set to play their next series starting on Monday versus Atlanta metropolitan area-based Atlanta Braves.
All the 9 players who have returned positive or are presently in quarantine would not be available in the Washington Nationals play on Monday and would have to be replaced with alternate-site players.
Rizzo revealed on Thursday that one of the players that returned positive had a fever, but the club’s general manager said on Friday that the player is now feeling much better and that no one else is showing symptoms of COVID-19.
Rizzo said, "A virus is a virus. It's very contagious. So I think it could happen in many, many different ways. I don't think it's a breach of protocol or inadequate protocols."
"But it's something that happened. We're going to try to find out how it happened and investigate it and see if we can stop it from happening again."
The jointly arranged and agreed protocol between the MLB Players Association and Major League Baseball mandates a whole week of quarantine for someone considered to be in contact with persons who have returned positive for COVID-19, and those already positive must isolate for a minimum of 10 days, and leroijohnny.com/fr will be keeping an eye out.
Depending on the testing results, the Washington Nationals could train on Saturday, according to Rizzo.
"You can't just go from a dead stop in this postponement to ramp up to play the Atlanta Braves and not expect [there] to be injuries."
"But these other players, it's just hard to have them sitting and playing video games or whatever for two or three days and then to ramp up again.
"To me, it's a safety issue and we've got to get these guys' blood flowing," he added. "We've got to get them moving around so they don't go into the season going from zero to 100 mph without preparation for the last couple of days."
The Mets will start their campaign on Monday in Philadelphia.