Nationals dealing with at least 3 positive COVID-19 tests among players

April 01, 2021 - 6:03pm

Nationals Park, home of the Washington Nationals. (Nick Wass/AP)

The Washington Nationals are dealing with at least three positive COVID-19 tests among players, per general manager Mike Rizzo.

Mike Rizzo says the Nationals have 2 additional players who are positive. There is another likely positive. In total, 3 confirmed positives, one more likely.

All 4 are players.

— Britt Ghiroli (@Britt_Ghiroli) April 1, 2021

The news comes after Thursday’s season-opening game against the New York Mets was postponed.

The Nationals — who had planned to have a workout at their stadium on Wednesday, before it was called off because of rain — did not have a single player test positive during their six weeks of spring training camp in West Palm Beach, Florida, according to Rizzo.

“We’ve done so well in spring training,” Scherzer said. “Everybody across the game — we had seen so few positive cases across spring training as a whole. It just shows you how quickly that can turn. It can turn on a dime. We have to face it, and we have to overcome it.”

Rizzo said the team underwent a new round of COVID-19 tests Wednesday, as was previously scheduled — a combination of rapid tests and MLB-mandated saliva tests.

With files from Associated Press