{"id":222556,"date":"2021-04-01T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=222556"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:33:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:33:03","slug":"mets-nats-opening-day-game-ppd-covid-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=222556","title":{"rendered":"Mets, Nats opening day game ppd. COVID Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-175758\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Metslogo-baseball-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Metslogo-baseball-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Metslogo-baseball-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Metslogo-baseball-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Metslogo-baseball.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Washington\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 The New York Mets season opener at Washington has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The Nationals issued a statement saying \u201congoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals organization\u201d was the reason for scrapping Thursday night&#8217;s game at Nationals Park. The game has not yet been rescheduled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-150030\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WashingtonNationalsLogo-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WashingtonNationalsLogo-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WashingtonNationalsLogo-431x291.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WashingtonNationalsLogo-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/WashingtonNationalsLogo.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo said Wednesday that one of the team\u2019s players had tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, before the team left spring training camp.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo said four other players and one staff member were following quarantine protocols after contact tracing determined they were in close contact with the person who tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Rizzo did not identify any of those involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington\u00a0 (AP)\u00a0 The New York Mets season opener at Washington has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns. The Nationals issued a statement saying \u201congoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals organization\u201d was the reason for scrapping Thursday night&#8217;s game at Nationals Park. The game has not yet been rescheduled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222560,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222556\/revisions\/222560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}