Earlier this morning, news broke that the Miami Marlins were the center of a coronavirus outbreak within baseball. Four players tested positive over the weekend, and eight more tested positive today, along with a pair of coaches. Miami’s home opener against the Orioles was postponed, and now, the Yankees game with the Phillies has been postponed as well.
This stems from the fact that the Phillies played the Marlins just yesterday, and the Phillies are now presumably undergoing rounds of testing. We are now basically in the same position we were in mid-March, when the coronavirus was spreading in the United States but sports continued to play while onlookers questioned how long the show could go on.