MLB Marlins’ Coronavirus Outbreak, Plus Dodgers v. Astros Rivalry

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🗓️ 28 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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On Monday, at least 11 players and two coaches for MLB’s Miami Marlins tested positive for coronavirus, after completing their opening series against the Philadelphia Phillies. The positive tests resulted in multiple MLB game postponements, and raised larger concerns about the league’s health and safety protocols. ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez joins Mina Kimes to discuss what happened, and whether the league’s 60-game season could be in jeopardy. Then, Alden and Mina preview Tuesday’s highly anticipated rematch of the 2017 World Series, which the Astros won, but was thrown into question by the sign-stealing scandal, and left the Dodgers very sore. Houston hosts Los Angeles (a matchup that would not have happened in the regular 2020 season plans) for the first of a two-game series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Commissioner Rob Mafford, thank you for being here. There has been a COVID-19 outbreak among the Miami Marlins. It is a crisis obviously unwelcome, not totally unanticipated in today's world. Now, we know that two baseball games have been postponed this evening in Philadelphia, in Miami. What can you tell us about the
0:22.4	Major League Baseball schedule going forward beyond tonight?
0:25.3	Well, our first concern, obviously, is the health of the players and their families, and
0:32.7	making sure that we do everything possible to minimize the spread of the virus among our employees.
0:40.2	We've been fortunate so far. We've done tens of thousands of tests. Our positive rate has been
0:45.3	0.4 percent. So we feel like the protocols have worked pretty well.
0:52.1	That's MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, weighing in on the coronavirus outbreak in the Marlins
0:58.3	clubhouse. As of now, the season is moving forward, with tonight's Dodgers-Astros game,
1:05.1	the league's marquee matchup. But the nature of how the virus spread and whether the league
1:10.5	could have done more to stop it
1:11.8	has led many to ask if any American sport can survive without a bubble.
1:17.0	Today, ESPN baseball reporter Alden Gonzalez brings us the latest on the Marlins,
1:22.7	then takes us to Houston for a rematch of a World Series that's since come into question.
1:32.6	I'm Mina Kimes. It's Tuesday, June 28th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:35.9	Alden, how you doing?
1:38.6	Mina, I don't know what I am right now.
1:46.2	You and a lot of folks in and around Major League Baseball, while last week the league got off to a mostly successful start
1:47.9	minus the Bon Soto test
1:49.7	the last 48 hours have been
1:52.3	difficult things have been chaotic
1:54.4	and you and I are talking right now on Monday
1:56.9	afternoon and we know that 11 Miami Marlins
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