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Mets Opening Day Postponed Due To COVID-19
After Thursday's postponement, baseball insiders report that the Mets won't open the season until Saturday at the earliest.
WASHINGTON, DC — Opening Day has been canceled for the New York Mets after a player on the Washington Nationals tested positive for COVID-19, forcing others in the organization to quarantine.
The Nationals confirmed the cancellation on Twitter after ESPN's Buster Olney was the first to report it.
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— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 1, 2021
MLB.com's Anthony DiComo reports that no Mets have tested positive for COVID-19, and just one Nationals player. But that positive test forced four other Nationals players and one staffer into quarantine.
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According to both DiComo and Olney, Saturday is the earliest the Mets will open the season.
The Mets-Nationals game tonight is being postponed, re COVID issues.
— Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) April 1, 2021
Major League Baseball has made today's Opening Day postponement official. "Out of an abundance of caution," a league release states, "the game will not be made up on Friday." Saturday is now the earliest possible Opening Day for the Mets.
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) April 1, 2021
On Wednesday, the Nationals said that they would be without five players who made their opening day roster after one of them tested positive for the coronavirus and the other four were in close contact with him. The team has not disclosed which players were in quarantine.
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The teams were set to face off at 7:09 p.m. in D.C. Jacob deGrom was scheduled for the Opening Day start for the Mets, facing off against the National's Max Scherzer.
With reporting from Mark Hand.
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