For weeks, the reports have indicated that when baseball returns it likely will do so only in select areas. But the latest update from a national writer gave the first glimmer of hope that the Giants could return to Oracle Park as soon as June.
USA Today's Bob Nightengale, citing three league executives with knowledge of ongoing talks, wrote Tuesday that MLB officials have become "cautiously optimistic" that the sport will resume in late June or early July. MLB would have at least 100 games in a shortened regular season, Nightengale reported, and he added: "Not only would baseball be played, but it would be played in their own major-league ballparks, albeit with no fans.