Renewed concern grips Cardinals as another player tests positive for COVID-19; series vs. Cubs postponed – STLtoday.com

The Friday game is the Cardinals' eighth consecutive postponed game.

The postponed series means 10 consecutive games for the Cardinals, and there is no indication at all when they'll next play.

The Cubs-Cardinals game on Sunday was set to be the ESPN showcase.

Due to seven postponed games, the Cardinals were about to start a stretch of 55 games in 52 days. This postponement makes their schedule entirely uncertain.

Players converged on Busch Stadium from either traveling with the team from Milwuakee or joining the team out of the alternate-site camp in Springfield, Mo. The Cardinals added four players from the alternate-site camp Wednesday to the workouts. All of them had previously undergone regular testing and received negative tests before traveling to join the big-league roster.

On Friday, Major League Baseball and the players' union released the updated information on the ongoing testing of players and staff during the regular season. The leagues call this "monitoring testing."

There have been 13,043 test samples collected in the past week, and of that group 13 have tested positive. That includes seven players and six staff members. The Cardinals are the majority of those positive tests.

On four of the last seven days MLB has not had a new positive, and the Cardinals had three consecutive days of that.

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