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The Miami team’s opening game had to be shelved due to a team-room outbreak.

The Miami Marlins were due for their opening game today against the Baltimore Orioles. Unfortunately, the game had to be postponed at the last minute, as an outbreak of coronavirus struck the Marlins’ clubhouse. Over the course of the weekend, eight players and two coaches for the Marlins tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of cases for the team up to 14. The team had already come to Philadelphia for the game, but are now being forced to quarantine in place while more tests and treatment are administered.

Those infected include the team’s starter, Jose Urena, catcher Jorge Alfaro, infielder Garrett Cooper and outfielder Harold Ramirez. Prior to their trip to Philadelphia, the Marlins previously played an exhibition match in Atlanta, which some have theorized to be the point of origin for this new outbreak.

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Meanwhile, the New York Yankees are scheduled to travel to Philadelphia to play against the Orioles, but staff have expressed concern over the fact that the team is supposed to use the same clubhouse that the Marlins were in. According to ESPN’s Marly Rivera, the Yankees have already been informed of the outbreak, and the clubhouse has been completely fumigated and sanitized several times. In the event the clubhouse is still deemed unusable, the Yankees brought several members of their own clubhouse personnel to work the game from them.

The Marlins’ games currently remain indefinitely postponed.