20 percent of MLB teams have games postponed due to coronavirus, Cardinals-Brewers the latest: reports

Twenty percent of Major League Baseball teams has been forced to postpone games Friday night because of positive coronavirus tests.

The sport has been back for a little over a week and on Friday games between the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies and Toronto Blue Jays and Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals were postponed because of the coronavirus.

MLB Network, and others, reported that the latest postponement was the game between the Brewers and Cardinals. It would have been the Brewers’ home-opener at Miller Park. According to the report, the Cardinals were the team with positive tests and elected to quarantine in their team hotel.

It’s unclear whether the entire weekend series will be postponed. MLB has yet to make Friday’s postponement official.

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