Guardians game postponed due to COVID-19 outbreak 2 days before Twins series
Major League Baseball announced that Wednesday's game between the Cleveland Guardians and Chicago White Sox has been postponed due to "multiple positive COVID-19 tests" for the Guardians.
"Following multiple positive COVID-19 tests within the Cleveland Guardians organization, their afternoon road game today vs. the Chicago White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field has been postponed to allow for continued testing and contact tracing. Major League Baseball will provide a rescheduling update when it becomes available."
It's the first MLB game to be postponed this season because of COVID-19.
Recently, the Twins had manager Rocco Baldelli, infielder Luis Arraez and pitcher Dylan Bundy test positive for COVID-19. But the Twins have not had to alter the game schedule because of the coronavirus.
Cleveland is scheduled for an off-day Thursday before starting a three-game series in Minnesota on Friday. As of now, all three games between the Twins and Guardians have not been impacted.
Bring Me The News has reached out to the Twins to find out if the weekend series against the Guardians could be impacted.
According to Cleveland.com, a member of the Guardians left Tuesday night's game with an illness, prompting the team's coaching staff to undergo COVID testing. Manager Terry Francona and other coaches tested positive. Cleveland.com was unaware of any players being impacted.
Title: Bring Me The Sports co-owner, editor Email: joe@bringmethenews.com Twitter: @JoeBMTN Education: Southwest Minnesota State University Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota Expertise: All things Minnesota sports Nelson has covered Minnesota sports for two decades, starting his media career in sports radio. He worked at small market Minnesota stations in Marshall and St. Cloud before joining one of the nation's highest-rated sports stations, KFAN-FM 100.3 in the Twin Cities. There, he was the producer of the top-rated mid-morning sports show with Minnesota Vikings announcer Paul Allen. His radio experience helped blossom a career as a sports writer, joining Minneapolis-based Bring Me The News in 2011. Nelson and Adam Uren became co-owners of Bring Me The News in 2018 and have since more than tripled the site's traffic and launched Bring Me The Sports in cooperation with the Sports Illustrated/FanNation umbrella. Nelson has covered the Super Bowl and numerous training camps, NFL combines, the MLB All-Star Game and Minnesota playoff games, in addition to the day-to-day happenings on and off the field of play. Nelson also has extensive knowledge of non-sports subjects, including news and weather. He works closely with Bring Me The News meteorologist Sven Sundgaard to produce a bevy of weather and climate information for Minnesota readers. Nelson helped launch and manage the Bring Me The News Radio Network, which provided more than 50 radio stations around Minnesota with daily news, sports and weather reports from 2011-17.