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The Daily 202's Big Idea

Coronavirus test result for World Series winner shows no one is safe

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, Daily News, News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Plus, 70 million Americans have already voted, and millions of your tax dollars are flowing into President Trump’s pockets.

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0:00.0

Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

0:05.6

2002 for Wednesday, October 28. In today's news, millions of your tax

0:12.1

dollars are flowing into Donald Trump's pockets, including three bucks for him to have a glass of water.

0:18.0

70 million Americans have already voted.

0:22.0

And we're seeing new evidence that the

0:24.1

Obama coalition is reactivating in Wisconsin. But first, the big idea. The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in

0:37.0

game six last night to win their first world series since 1988. As the Dodgers celebrated their championship on the field, many of them wearing masks,

0:46.0

one key figure was missing. Third baseman, Justin Turner,

0:50.0

the longest tenured Dodgers position player

0:52.8

had been pulled right before the seventh inning

0:55.7

after his latest coronavirus test came back positive.

0:59.6

The result apparently arrived mid-game.

1:02.3

He was immediately put in isolation, but he was The result apparently arrived mid-game.

1:02.6

He was immediately put in isolation, but he was later spotted on the field celebrating with

1:07.0

his teammates while not wearing a mask.

1:10.1

It was the first positive test for a player in more than six weeks,

1:13.6

and coming in the middle of the final game of the World Series,

1:16.0

it was perhaps a fitting conclusion to a season that at times seemed endangered

1:20.8

by the spread of the contagion.

1:23.1

It also appears baseball barely avoided a messy outcome had the series been extended to a seventh

1:27.4

game.

1:28.4

Dave Shinyon and Scott Allen note that for a while on Tuesday night, game seven seemed to be a very strong possibility.

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