The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ Three players and five staff members were positive for COVID-19 in the past week among 12,458 monitoring tests announced by Major League Baseball and the players’ association.
The eight amounted to a 0.06% positive rate, the commissioner’s office said Friday. There have been 39 positive tests — involving 23 players and 16 staffer — among 123,770 tests this year, a 0.03% positive rate.
Nineteen of the 30 teams have had a positive test. Six games have been postponed this season due to COVID-19: an opening three-game series between the New York Mets and Washington on April 1-3-4, two games between Minnesota and the Los Angeles Angels on April 17-18 and a game