A weekend series between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies was canceled after two Phillies staff members tested positive for COVID-19, according to MLB.com and USA Today.
The Phillies showed Thursday that a team training member and a member of the clubhouse had tested positive for the virus.
The Blue Jays, which lately cannot play in Canada because the country’s passing government does not allow players to move from the United States and vice versa, lately they are “hosts” of a series opposed to the Nationals in Washington. They planned to travel to Philadelphia to play a number of home games starting Friday.
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Instead, the Blue Jays will ask national citizens for permission to stay on weekends in DC or look to go to some other city where they will take refuge there.
The Phillies haven’t played since Sunday when they faced the Miami Marlins. Before this match, 4 Marlins players tested positive for COVID-19, but the game went as planned. On Thursday, more than a dozen Marlins players tested positive for the virus. His season is lately “on hold.”
No Phillies player has tried COVID-19 since.
Baseball is lately the only game that tries to resume play while allowing groups to travel between cities for games. The NBA, NHL and MLS have chosen to lead all of their games in one or two venues and require athletes to take refuge at the venue.