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May 11, 2022
Wednesday afternoon’s recreation between the White Sox and Guardians has been postponed, Main League Baseball introduced. Cleveland is coping with a number of COVID-19 positives, and the groups received’t play Wednesday “to permit for continued testing and get in touch with tracing.”
This marks the primary recreation of the 2022 season postponed due to virus issues. Beneath the MLB–MLBPA well being and security protocols for this season, the commissioner’s workplace has closing authority on whether or not to postpone a recreation. Protocols state that “MLB intends to postpone video games provided that needed to guard the well being and security of Membership
personnel, gamers and umpires. Video games won’t be postponed for aggressive causes offered the Membership has a ample variety of gamers accessible to substitute these gamers on the Lively Roster who’re unavailable to play on account of COVID-19.”
The league has not but introduced rescheduling plans. Wednesday would’ve marked the rubber match of a three-game set between the groups. The White Sox host the Yankees for 4 video games beginning Thursday; the Guardians have a scheduled off day Thursday earlier than heading to Minnesota for a weekend sequence. The division rivals have 4 extra sequence on the schedule, so it appears seemingly Wednesday’s recreation shall be made up as a part of a doubleheader down the road.
The identification of any gamers affected by Cleveland’s outbreak is unclear. Jesse Rogers of ESPN experiences (on Twitter) that the constructive exams “largely” contain coaches and different employees members. The workforce introduced Wednesday morning that supervisor Terry Francona examined constructive for the virus, with bench coach DeMarlo Hale set to function appearing supervisor. At current, Cleveland has one participant — infielder Yu Chang — on the COVID injured record; Chang went on the IL in mid-April and has been on a rehab task with Triple-A Columbus for the previous week and a half.
