First Pitch: A Reminder That MLB is Still Trying to Play Baseball in the Middle of a Global Pandemic

15 Aug 2020

The rest of the series between the Pirates and the Reds is up in the air right now as a player in the series has tested positive for COVID-19.

The status of the rest of the #Reds' series with the #Pirates is uncertain after a player has tested positive for COVID-19, sources tell me and @Ken_Rosenthal https://t.co/XWux7LsU1S

— C. トレント・ローズクランズ (@ctrent) August 15, 2020

Jon Heyman says that a decision will come this morning on tonight’s game.

Pirates/Reds uniformed personnel were told last night that MLB was going to make a decision this morning on the game tonight after contact tracing and results from further testing of both teams yesterday, and that officials were waiting on those results.

— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 15, 2020

I know we’re all happy to get some kind of distraction away from the fact that life has been flipped, turned upside down this year with COVID-19. With teams routinely getting shut down, players contracting a virus with unknown long-term implications, and those infected teams and players traveling around the country and putting airline and hotel workers at risk, I just have to ask: What the fuck are we doing here?