Major League Baseball has postponed a season-opening, three-game series between the New York Mets and Washington Nationals due to a Covid-19 outbreak.The teams’ opening game on Thursday had already been scratched after three positive coronavirus test results were confirmed by the Nationals.
Today, the team confirmed that a fourth player had tested positive, prompting MLB to shut down the entire series so that additional contact-tracing and testing could be done.
The three-game set will me made up later in the season.The Mets, starting a new chapter under majority owner and hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen, will now open their season Monday in Philadelphia.
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