PEORIA, Ariz. — The quiet of the morning made the setting feel eerie and abandoned. Normally, the area would be awash in the din of baseball. But there were no sounds of chatter, hard-thrown baseballs popping leather mitts or the distinct crack made when a ball strikes the sweet spot of a maple bat.
But the day after the sports world was put on hold by the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, there was silence on the empty, rain-soaked fields of the Mariners complex.
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A father and his teenage son, both clad in Mariners coats, walked hopefully around the perimeter of the fenced-off facility, past the padlocked gates where fans normally enter to watch workouts.