After COVID 突発／発生, Nats to open season Tuesday vs. 勇敢に立ち向かうs
WASHINGTON (AP) - The 国家のs will begin their season Tuesday by hosting the Atlanta 勇敢に立ち向かうs after Major League Baseball 延期するd Monday's opener of the teams' three-game series because of a coronavirus 突発／発生 that 伴う／関わるs 11 of Washington's players.
"The most 最近の 一連の会議、交渉／完成する of 実験（する） results of 国家のs 職員／兵員 含むd no new 肯定的なs," said an MLB 声明 sent Sunday night. "All of (Washington´s) 適格の 職員／兵員 will be able to 参加する in baseball activities at 国家のs Park on Monday."
Four 国家のs players have 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19 over the past week and are 孤立するing, while another seven are under 検疫 because 接触する tracing 決定するd they might have been exposed to the illness.
General 経営者／支配人 マイク Rizzo said Sunday that 非，不，無 of those 11 - a 大多数 of whom, although not all, were supposed to be on the 開始 day roster - would be 利用できる if the three-game 始める，決める with Atlanta began Monday. Rizzo has not 公然と identified any of the players 伴う／関わるd or the two staff members who also have been placed under 検疫 because of possible （危険などに）さらす.
Washington has yet to play this season; its 開始 three-game series at home against the New York Mets on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday was 延期するd.
"Believe me, we´re in constant 接触する with MLB," Rizzo said in a ビデオ call with reporters Sunday afternoon, while he was still を待つing a 決定／判定勝ち（する） about Monday's game.
国家のs Park is の近くにd after the 開始 day baseball game between the Washington 国家のs and New York Mets was 延期するd because of coronavirus 関心s. Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ツバメ)
Rizzo has been 毅然とした that Washington would need to be able to 持つ／拘留する team workouts before 直面するing an 対抗者. 投手s were able go to 国家のs Park one by one on Saturday and Sunday to throw bullpen 開会／開廷／会期s.
"Position players 港／避難所´t worked out in a week. And 投手s 港／避難所´t thrown any 競争の激しい pitch in that same period of time. It´s something that we´re taking very 本気で here. We´re thinking of creative ways under the 議定書 and under the 指導／手引 to get these guys as ready as possible," Rizzo said.
"It makes a lot of sense for baseball, player 保護-wise, to have these guys go through their paces in a 十分な workout before we take the field," he 追加するd.
The 統治するing NL East 支持する／優勝者 勇敢に立ち向かうs are 0-3, coming off a season-開始 sweep in which they managed to 得点する／非難する／２０ a total of three runs at the Philadelphia Phillies.
勇敢に立ち向かうs 経営者／支配人 Brian Snitker said in the afternoon - before MLB's 判決，裁定 arrived - that he was going to assume his club would be playing Monday until he heard さもなければ.
"This is the COVID 時代. Everything´s fluid," Snitker said.
The 国家のs and 勇敢に立ち向かうs are now 予定するd to 直面する each other Tuesday and Wednesday. The 2019 World Series 支持する／優勝者s, who tied for last in the 分割 last sea son, then would have Thursday off before 長，率いるing out for a road trip that is to begin Friday at the Los Angeles ペテン師.
MLB did not 発表する when the first four games on Washington´s schedule will be made up.
Rizzo said the four players who 実験（する）d 肯定的な are "feeling much, much better," 追加するing that any symptoms that appeared earlier have 沈下するd.
"We want to do everything we can to 阻止する this thing in the bud 権利 here, 権利 now," Rizzo said. "So I think that´s 存在 taken very much into consideration when we´re talking (about) the next couple of days."
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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2020, とじ込み／提出する photo, Washington 国家のs general 経営者／支配人 マイク Rizzo looks on during the seventh inning in the 延長／続編 of a 一時停止するd baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the 国家のs in Baltimore. The entire season-開始 three-game series between the Washington 国家のs and New York Mets was called off on Friday, April 2, 2021, after three players for the 2019 World Series 支持する／優勝者s 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, とじ込み／提出する)
An electronic 調印する encouraging mask wearing is seen at 国家のs Stadium, after the 開始 day baseball game between the Washington 国家のs and New York Mets was 延期するd because of coronavirus 関心s, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. The entire season-開始 three-game series between the Washington 国家のs and New York Mets was called off on Friday after three players for the 2019 World Series 支持する／優勝者s 実験（する）d 肯定的な for COVID-19.(AP Photo/Jacquelyn ツバメ)
