Major League Baseball and the Orioles have made it through the three-week trial period. The two-month test comes next.
Two baseball games that count will be played Thursday night, the first down Interstate 95 between the Washington Nationals and New York Yankees and the other across the country between the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers, with the Orioles’ matchup against the Boston Red Sox among the contests in Friday’s season-opening slate. They represent the first games in a season in which each team will only play 60 of them because of the coronavirus pandemic.
That pandemic is still happening, and in many states, it’s getting worse.