Remember when a 60-game season seemed short?
We keep calling this pandemic-compacted baseball schedule a sprint, but that overlooks the bigger, more significant number.
It’s 900.
A 60-game season means 900 games will be played, and that’s not counting the postseason, which players and owners recently agreed to expand, a sign things were going well enough that the threat from coronavirus pandemic was put on the back-burner to boost the bottom line.
Monday challenged that thinking.
Calls to cancel the season returned with a fervor as baseball announced its first virus-related postponements of games due to an outbreak among the Marlins.