After Thursday, the next time the Philadelphia Phillies will play a game on a baseball diamond, regardless whether for spring training or the regular season, is now unknown.
In response to action already taken by the NBA and NCAA, Major League Baseball announced on Thursday that is has suspended Spring Training games and delayed the start of the 2020 regular season by at least two weeks due to the worldwide emergency created by COVID-19.
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The announcement comes after MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred consulted with club owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association, following what Passan calls “enormous pressure” to follow suit of other mass cancellations of sporting events in the U.