Play Ball! Major League Baseball announces July return with 60 game season
- 4 years ago
Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it will return to the field with a 60-game schedule that will start either July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as the sport tries to push ahead amid the coronavirus following months of acrimony.
A day after the players' association rejected an economic agreement and left open the possibility of a grievance seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, the bickering sides agreed on an operations manual.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred then unilaterally imposed the schedule, his right under a March agreement with the union.
The announcement by MLB came while more players continue to test positive for the virus — at least seven on the Philadelphia Phillies alone and the concern remains that if health situations deteriorated, all games could still be wiped out.
A day after the players' association rejected an economic agreement and left open the possibility of a grievance seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages, the bickering sides agreed on an operations manual.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred then unilaterally imposed the schedule, his right under a March agreement with the union.
The announcement by MLB came while more players continue to test positive for the virus — at least seven on the Philadelphia Phillies alone and the concern remains that if health situations deteriorated, all games could still be wiped out.