CARDINALS foiled again by positive test results.

ST. LOUIS — The entire three-game series between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis at Busch Stadium was postponed Friday night after two more Cardinals players and a staff member tested positive for covid-19.

Major League Baseball announced that the whole weekend set was off. Hours earlier, MLB said Friday night’s game had been scrapped to ensure everyone affected on the Cardinals was identified.

The Cardinals have been off since July 29. Eight players in total have tested positive, including catcher Yadier Molina.

The Cardinals spent five days in quarantine in a Milwaukee hotel before being cleared to travel back to St. Louis late Tuesday, when they returned negative tests for the second consecutive day. They got workouts in at home and had been prepared to return to the field Friday.

St. Louis’ next game is scheduled for Monday at home against Pittsburgh. The Cubs are next set to play Tuesday at Cleveland.

The Cardinals and the Miami Marlins have been hit hardest by virus outbreaks since MLB started its shortened 60-game season. The Marlins missed more than a week before resuming play Tuesday.

MLB released its most recent testing numbers Friday. The league said there were 13,043 samples taken last week with 13 positive results for a 0.1% positive rate. During the monitoring phase, there have been 53,826 overall samples that have returned 71 positives for a 0.1% positive rate. Of those 71 positive results, 49 are players and 22 are staff.

Among the players who confirmed they tested positive for covid-19 were a pair of All-Stars in Molina and Paul DeJong.

Before Friday’s postponement, the Cardinals already had added three doubleheaders against the Brewers to a previously scheduled series to make up their three games postponed last weekend. Milwaukee will host doubleheaders Sept. 18 and 20, and will serve as the home team in the opener of a twinbill in St. Louis on Sept. 25.

The Cardinals will make up this week’s series against the Detroit Tigers with doubleheaders Aug. 13 and Sept. 10. St. Louis had been scheduled to play the Chicago White Sox at the Field of Dreams in Iowa on Aug. 13. Those teams will play in Chicago on Aug. 14 instead.

(AP/Jeff Roberson) Paul DeJong (left) and Yadier Molina (right) were two of six St. Louis players who announced Tuesday they had tested positive for covid-19. The Cardinals announced Friday that two more players and a staff member also tested positive, causing this weekend’s series against the Chicago Cubs to be postponed.