A COVID-19 outbreak occurred within the Marlins organization while they were in Philadelphia playing the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park in the opening series of the 2020 season.
- "Current plan" is for the Phillies to be off until Friday (2:46pm - Tuesday)
- Phillies are being tested again today for COVID after only one staff member and no players tested positive (2:35pm - Tuesday)
- Yankees in a holding pattern, told not to travel back to New York (1:54pm - Tuesday)
- The Marlins season has been paused (1:39pm - Tuesday)
- One scenario being discussed is Marlins and Phillies quarantine for an undisclosed amount of time (1:29pm - Tuesday)
- Marlins star Miguel Rojas has tested positive (1:06pm - Tuesday)
- Marlins unlikely to play on Wednesday and Thursday (12:54pm - Tuesday)
- The Nationals had a team vote and voted not to go to Miami for a three-game series. The league now must determine a ruling. (12:02pm - Tuesday)
- 15 Marlins players have now tested positive for COVID-19 (11:58am - Tuesday)
- Andrew McCutchen is not happy about finding out news on Twitter (10:36am - Tuesday)
- Phillies plan to take a bus tomorrow to New York for tomorrow's game against the Yankees (10:14am - Tuesday)
- Report: No new Phillies players have tested positive (10:06am - Tuesday)
- Phillies-Yankees postponed again (10:06am - Tuesday)
- 4 more Marlins test positive (10:07am - Tuesday)
- Marlins CEO Derek Jeter releases a statement (11:46am - Monday)
- Ken Rosenthal reports Phillies-Yankees has been canceled (10:33am - Monday)
- On Monday morning, the news broke that 14 members of the Miami Marlins tested positive for the coronavirus. As a result, the Marlins and Orioles game was canceled on Monday.
The Marlins played the Phillies on Sunday night, and both teams were aware that four Marlins players tested positive. Marlins manager Don Mattingly said his team "never really considered not playing."
NBCSportsPhiladelphia's Jim Salisbury was on with Angelo Cataldi and the Morning Team when news broke about the Marlins outbreak. He was asked if the Marlins can continue their season this year:
"I don't know," said Salisbury, "They have these 60-man player pools but they just lost, what, eight big leaguers?"
"They were in the Phillies home ballpark. Guys were taking leads off of first base, Rhys Hoskins was holding them on. Bryce Harper, who has not been a mask-wearer, donned a mask while leading off first base yesterday. The Phillies received a group text message in the morning to the effect that we are hearing things on the other side, there might be some problems over there so please take your precautions. I don't know what is going to happen. This is going to be a very watershed day in this whole COVID/baseball experience."
Matt Gelb reported that the Phillies are quarantining their visiting clubhouse staff members in an effort to keep safe. The Yankees, who arrived in Philadelphia last night for Monday's game, brought along their own clubhouse staff. Reports have indicated the Phillies clubhouse was "disinfected" following the Marlins departure.
In an article for The Athletic, Jayson Stark and Ken Rosenthal contacted two infectious-disease specialist to ask them a number of questions, including plausible outcomes for the Marlins:
"Both (Dr. John) Swartzberg and (Dr. Zachary) Binney said that if they were advising Major League Baseball, they would recommend hitting the pause button on the Marlins' season, most likely for the next two weeks. But there are no specific standards within the health and safety protocols that trigger the shutdown of a team or all teams. That decision is solely in the hands of commissioner Rob Manfred."
