If youve been online at all today, theres no doubt you have actually seen the scary news around MLB: The Marlins have 14 cases of COVID-19 within their company, and numerous video games have been cancelled throughout the league as an outcome.
Together with that news was a quieter story about the Reds, who had one gamer (Matt Davidson) test positive on Friday and two others, Mike Moustakas and Nick Senzel, get scratched over the weekend since they were not feeling well.
Due to what occurred with the Marlins, there was some fear that tonights Cubs video game against the Reds was going to get delayed. But considering that this early morning, the Cubs player associate, Ian Happ, has actually touched with the Reds in addition to the other 30 team associates across the league, and things were/are looking great for the game to go on as arranged. And in addition to those discussions, Cubs Manager David Ross exposed that he got a more detailed explanation of whats been happening with the Reds, which led to an organizational decision that “its safe to step on the field with them” tonight.
Jordan Bastian shares the quote with some extra news out of Cincinnati:
Ross on communication w/ Reds: “Theres been a description of whats gone on over there and the information, kind of the behind the scenes look. And after that weve made a decision that we seem like its safe to step on the field with them.”
Via @m_sheldon: https://t.co/FgpCRLJefw
— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) July 27, 2020
We dont have numerous more information than that for now, however Moustakas has actually because been put on the hurt list, and Senzel is not in the beginning lineup (though I think hes still on the active lineup currently).
