Four baseball players from the Miami Marlins tested positive for coronavirus controls, including Dominican Jose Ureña, who was lower last-minute for Sunday’s game against the Phillies, espN reported. The Marlins, who have spent the weekend in Philadelphia, played their first games of the 2020 season on Friday, Saturday and Sunday against the Phillies.
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Less than two hours after Sunday’s game, the Marlins ruled out the participation of their starter José Ureña as well as that of Colombian Harold Martinez and that of the American Garrett Cooper, without publicizing the reasons, MLB noted on his website. Despite the casualties, the Miami team beat 11-6 to Phillies with home runs by Brian Anderson and Venezuelan Miguel Rojas.According to MLB guidelines, infected players must be isolated from the team until they negatively in two coronavirus tests applied at least 24 hours apart, do not show symptoms for 72 hours and receive approval from doctors ESPN noted. With a four-month delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 major league season was launched on Thursday with a reduced schedule of 162 to 60 games to be played behind closed doors. Unlike other competitions such as the NBA or MLS, which chose to resume games in a single “bubble” venue, major leagues preferred to play the season in the team stadiums behind closed doors. In the last round of coronavirus tests that MLB made public this week, six positive cases of a total of 10,548 tests were recorded, a percentage of 0.05%. Shortly before Thursday’s opening game against the New York Yankees, the Washington Nationals, the reigning MLB champions, also lost indefinitely to their Dominican outfielder Juan Soto for testing positive for coronavirus. You may be interested:Ciro Immobile catches up with the Lewandowski Golden Boot with 34 goalsLiga MX: Julio Furch continues with the desire to play for the Mexican NATIONAL national team: Justin Verlander, out for a tug in the right forearm
