We can't go on

That's in the end

Breaking the rules of the game

The game is about to end

The game is about to end

Hello and welcome to episode 1609 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters

I am Devon Berk of the Ringer, joined by a set-miller of ESPN, LOS AM

The season is over, World Series is over, we made it, but with mixed emotions to the very end

So we will be talking about the strategies and the legacies and all of that

Unless you have anything else you want to start with, we should begin by talking about the way it ended or what happened after it ended

Or just before it ended actually

Well, yeah, that's true

I guess the public didn't really know about it until the immediate aftermath or at least we had some sense of what was happening

But it was a developing situation, it's still sort of a developing situation as we record here on Wednesday afternoon

So we're talking about Justin Turner's positive test and his subsequent actions after the game

So here's what happened Justin Turner was replaced in the eighth inning of World Series game 6

And we learned later on that this was because he had tested positive for COVID-19

So during the second inning

MLB learned that he had had an inconclusive test that was taken on Monday

And so they expedited the processing of a pending test that had been taken earlier on Tuesday

And that came back positive and in the seventh inning the douchers were told to remove him from the game

He didn't come back out for the eighth and after the game he initially isolated seems like he was taken somewhere

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