This time tomorrow, the Pirates will be gathering at PNC Park to begin preparing (again) for the 2020 season, aka Baseball in the Time of COVID-19. Since the pandemic first hit Pennsylvania in March, Pittsburgh has been routinely praised for its low level of infections and deaths, as the city basically slammed closed. That all changed this past week, though, when Allegheny County, where Pittsburgh is located, experienced spikes in new cases. This is being blamed on newly reopened and therefore packed bars, which the county will be closing today until further notice.
As of this writing, it hasn’t been publicly reported that anyone in the Pirates organization has tested positive for the virus.