Marlins back on Orioles’ schedule

Quarantine-released team Baltimore-bound

Manager Brandon Hyde said that he didn’t find out the Orioles would be hosting the Marlins in Miami’s return from a leaguemandated COVID-19 quarantine because of their clubhouse outbreak until Major League Baseball announced it Saturday.

After a week in which the Orioles flew to Miami and didn’t play a game there, then hosted the New York Yankees a week ahead of schedule, Hyde’s club faces four games in three days against the Marlins, beginning Tuesday at Camden Yards. He knows not to get too comfortable with anything until that night’s first pitch.

“We’re adjusting on the fly,” Hyde said. “It’s a dodge-andweave. Every day there’s something new. Tomorrow, there’s probably going to be something else.

“I just think that we’re staying flexible. I knew that there was something that was going to have to be on the schedule there at some point this next week. I just didn’t know what was going to happen and when they’d be scheduled or what.

“Honestly, I wake up in the morning, I see what’s happening around the world and around our sport, and put on my fireman’s hat and try to put out fires until 7:35 [p.m.]”

Executive vice president/general manager Mike Elias said: “Obviously, the schedule’s on wheels right now.”

On the original schedule, the Orioles were meant to play the Yankees for three games Monday through Wednesday. Those contests were moved up a week as the Yankees’ opponent, the Phillies, also had their schedule suspended after Philadelphia played the Marlins last Sunday despite evidence of a COVID-19 outbreak in Miami’s clubhouse.

At least 21 members of the Marlins’ traveling party have reportedly been infected, but the team had no new positive tests as of Saturday morning, MLB said.

“I don’t think we’re really stressed too much about the Marlins coming in,” Orioles reliever Shawn Armstrong said Saturday. “Obviously, a lot of positive tests are negative. That’s not a good thing for MLB in

“Those guys have been solid. They’re going to be in the top 5 even on their bad days.”