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Major League Baseball, its season having struck a coronavirus iceberg just days after leaving port, took dramatic, dizzying measures Tuesday to keep its endeavor afloat. The Marlins, with four more players testing positive for COVID-19 Tuesday to give them a total of 15 (plus two coaches), will cease playing through Sunday, the league announced. The …
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Forty-five minutes before the Yankees were scheduled to bus Tuesday from Philadelphia to Yankee Stadium, where they had a workout planned, the itinerary changed drastically. So, instead of opening a two-game series against the Phillies on Wednesday night in The Bronx, after two games in Philadelphia were postponed when more than a dozen Marlins tested …
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The Yankees are leaving Philadelphia. The Post’s Joel Sherman reported on Tuesday morning that the Yankees-Phillies game has been postponed for a second straight night. The Yankees are leaving Philadelphia and will practice Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium. The Phillies played their season-opening series against the Marlins, who had 11 players and two coaches test …
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PHILADELPHIA — Instead of preparing for Monday night’s game against the Phillies by undergoing saliva tests for COVID-19, attending meetings and watching video of their at-bats at the team hotel, the Yankees spent the day locked down waiting to see how the same tests taken by the Phillies earlier in the day turned out. The …
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The Yankees’ scheduled Monday night game against the Phillies in Philadelphia has been postponed because of the Marlins’ coronavirus outbreak, MLB announced. “Tonight’s scheduled games between the Miami Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles at Marlins Park and the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Yankees at Citizens Bank Park have been postponed while Major League …
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WASHINGTON — Aaron Boone had to tell a player he believes can thrive in the big leagues there was no room on the Yankees’ roster late Saturday night. That’s when outfielder Clint Frazier was sent to the Yankees’ alternate site in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre with reliever Ben Heller to make room for relievers Nick Nelson and Brooks …
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WASHINGTON — When Aroldis Chapman landed on the COVID-19 injured list, it was fair to wonder what losing a dominant closer would mean for a bullpen many considered the best in baseball. Sunday at a scalding Nationals Park, the Yankees got their first test of life without Chapman in their 3-2 win and didn’t blink. …
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WASHINGTON — There is no such thing as early in this condensed baseball season. No time to ease into things. In a normal schedule the page turned feels like a feather. Now it weighs in like a bank safe. James Paxton, who had lower back surgery in early February and wouldn’t have been ready by …
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WASHINGTON — After the entire Yankees roster knelt before the national anthem on Thursday’s Opening Night, two players took the extra step — or simply stayed down, to express it literally — on Saturday night. Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton became the first Yankees to make this controversial statement. Before the Yankees and Nationals continued …
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WASHINGTON — It began with a sublime display of unity, hope and gratitude, two of the game’s best franchises showing off their social consciousness on the Nationals Park field. It concluded with that same field covered by a rain-soaked tarp featuring the garish logo for Skittles, the candy that ruins your teeth. Baby steps. The …
Major League Baseball, its season having struck a coronavirus iceberg just days after leaving port, took dramatic, dizzying measures Tuesday to keep its endeavor afloat. The Marlins, with four more players testing positive for COVID-19 Tuesday to give them a total of 15 (plus two coaches), will cease playing through Sunday, the league announced. The …
