PHILADELPHIA — Instead of preparing for Monday night’s game against the Phillies by undergoing saliva tests for COVID-19, attending meetings and watching video of their at-bats at the team hotel, the Yankees spent the day locked down waiting to see how the same tests taken by the Phillies earlier in the day turned out.
The Phillies expected the results later in the evening. It wasn’t clear when the Yankees would get their tests back.
MLB announced Monday morning the Yankees-Phillies game at Citizens Bank Park, and the Orioles-Marlins game in Miami, were postponed while the league conducted additional COVID-19 testing after 11 Marlins players and two coaches tested positive over the weekend when they were in Philly for three games.
MLB didn’t offer information on the status of the Yankees’ Tuesday night game against the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. It wasn’t clear if the clubs would play a doubleheader or one game or no games. Obviously, the plan would be tied to the Phillies’ test results.
The Yankees were still at the team hotel at 5:30 p.m., so it was highly likely their travel plans were contingent on the Phillies’ test results.
With the Phillies scheduled to play the Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday and Thursday, those games also could be in jeopardy depending on the Phillies’ test results.
With Phillies staffers who work in the visiting clubhouse sent to quarantine and unable to unpack the Yankees’ equipment truck Sunday night, the Yankees sent several clubhouse employees from Yankee Stadium to Philly on Monday. However, due to an ultra-cleaning process the equipment wasn’t inside the clubhouse as of late Monday afternoon.
According to NBC Sports Philadelphia, the Yankees called the Phillies on Sunday looking to shift Monday’s game to Yankee Stadium but the discussion didn’t result in a move.
Before the game was postponed, the Yankees had Zoom calls set up with Aaron Boone, Masahiro Tanaka and Geritt Cole. Those were canceled and the team didn’t allow anyone to talk about how it felt to follow the Marlins into a clubhouse or their feelings on playing Tuesday evening in the same park where Monday’s game was postponed.
J.A. Happ was slated to make his season debut Monday night and Cole’s start Tuesday evening would be his second of the year. If a game is played Tuesday, Happ could start it and that would move Cole to Wednesday night’s game against the Phillies in the Yankees’ home opener. Jordan Montgomery, the original home-opener starter, could then pitch his first game of the year on Thursday in The Bronx or Boone could start James Paxton on normal four days’ rest and bump Montgomery. Paxton didn’t make it out of the second inning against the Nationals on Saturday night in Washington where the Yankees were battered, 9-2.
Of course, since the Yankees and Phillies are playing two games in The Bronx on Wednesday and Thursday already, they could stage a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium to make up for Monday’s postponement. If Tuesday night’s game isn’t played, it wouldn’t be likely to play back-to-back doubleheaders at the Stadium.
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