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(Reuters) - The St. Louis Cardinals will return
to action this weekend after having a total of 14 games
postponed while they dealt with a COVID-19 outbreak within the
club, Major League Baseball said on Friday.
The Cardinals, who last competed on July 29, will end their
two-week hiatus when they play a doubleheader at the Chicago
White Sox on Saturday before concluding the three-game series on
Sunday.
The two teams were originally supposed to open the three-game
series on Thursday in Iowa with the "Field of Dreams" game but
that contest near the site of the movie of the same name was
previously postponed until 2021 due to the virus.
St. Louis had played just five games in MLB's 60-game 2020
season when they were sidelined in late July after members of
the team tested positive for the virus.
Additional positive tests involving Cardinals players and staff
members kept the team from returning to the field in a season
that was already postponed nearly four months because of the
novel coronavirus.
MLB announced several rescheduling updates to help the Cardinals
get their season back on track.
Among the changes, St. Louis will play three doubleheaders at
the Chicago Cubs that will consist of the regularly scheduled
game and a make-up from last weekend's scheduled series.
In a separate announcement, MLB and the union representing its
players said four of the 12,302 samples collected over the last
week returned positive results, a figure that consists of two
players and two staff members from the same club.
(Reporting by Frank Pingue in Toronto; Editing by Chizu
Nomiyama)
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