{"id":45506,"date":"2021-04-02T02:42:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T06:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=45506"},"modified":"2021-04-02T02:42:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T06:42:57","slug":"washington-nationals-new-york-mets-postponed-due-to-covid-19-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2021\/04\/02\/washington-nationals-new-york-mets-postponed-due-to-covid-19-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals-New York Mets Postponed Due to Covid-19 Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Buster Onley, the opening day match-up between the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2021\/03\/29\/2021-washington-nationals-season-preview\/\" target=\"_self\">Washington Nationals<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/mlb-teams\/new-york-mets\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Mets<\/a> has been postponed. The Nationals and New York Mets were going to play at 7 PM Eastern on ESPN. This postponement came a day after news broke that one Washington Nationals player tested positive for Covid-19. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2021\/03\/31\/natioanals-player-covid-positive\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Four players and one staff member<\/a> were in contact tracing protocols.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Mets-Nationals game tonight is being postponed, re COVID issues.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Buster Olney (@Buster_ESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Buster_ESPN\/status\/1377638903126065152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Washington Nationals-New York Mets Opening Day Game Postponed<\/h2>\n<p>It was going to be a marvelous pitching matchup \u2014 three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer vs. two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom. However, the Nationals found themselves in a similar situation as last season. One player tested positive a day before Opening Day. Last year, Juan Soto missed their Opening Day game against the New York Yankees due to Covid-19, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masnsports.com\/byron-kerr\/2020\/08\/soto-homers-in-intrasquad-game-believes-he-tested-false-positive.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">although he believes it was a false positive<\/a>. This time around, the Nationals aren&#8217;t as fortunate. Today would have been the first day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/31173237\/one-opening-day-all-30-mlb-teams-here-watching-every-single-matchup\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">since 1968<\/a> where every team played on Opening Day. Unfortunately, this announcement changed that.<\/p>\n<p>After the news broke Wednesday night regarding the positive test, the Nationals frantically began calling up players from their alternate site and minor league affiliates. This included Sam Clay, Yadiel Hernandez, Luis Garcia, and Tres Barrera, according to Jesse Dougherty of the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And I can confirm their reports that Tres Barrera has been called up to the Opening Day roster to face the Mets tomorrow night. Players on their way to D.C. so far, and could be more: Barrera, Luis Garc\u00eda and Sam Clay.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Dougherty (@dougherty_jesse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dougherty_jesse\/status\/1377415474028314624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Source: The Nationals are calling up outfielder Yadiel Hernandez to the Opening Day roster.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jesse Dougherty (@dougherty_jesse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dougherty_jesse\/status\/1377424317105901569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Major League Baseball has options for the future regarding the Washington Nationals. If no more players test positive, they could play a doubleheader on Saturday or Sunday. However, if additional positive tests occur, then the entire series could be at risk. They would have to make the games up some time in the future. That could not happen soon, since the next time the Mets visit the Nationals will be on June 18th.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhXpsoaZt6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/hhXpsoaZt6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Washington Nationals (@Nationals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nationals\/status\/1377651129396387842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 2021 MLB season is not off to the best start. With the vaccine rollout underway, there had been hopes for a normal season.<\/p>\n<p>Main Image<br \/>\n<a id=\"gG-0iy7cT3d-bu8wbnyN5g\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1227744640\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'gG-0iy7cT3d-bu8wbnyN5g',sig:'epNgG_x2s7uTSxmRAZaZMdIwPHcjqd-KUFuOFiQ7Zas=',w:'594px',h:'374px',items:'1227744640',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Players Mentioned<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/scherma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Scherzer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/degroja01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jacob deGrom<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sotoju01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Juan Soto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=clay--000sam\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sam Clay<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernaya01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yadiel Hernandez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=garcilu03,garcilu05,garcilu04,garcilu02,garcilu01,garcia023lui,garcia021lui&amp;search=Luis+Garcia&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Garcia<\/a>, <\/strong>and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/barretr01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tres Barrera<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a day after news broke of a positive Covid-19 test within the Nationals organization, the Nationals and Mets game has been postponed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3369,"featured_media":45540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,22,35,19],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-45506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-mets","category-news","category-nationals","tag-washington-nationals"],"modified_by":"Evan Thompson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}