St Louis series off after positive Cards tests

Seven St. Louis Cardinals players and six staff members have tested positive for Covid-19, causing Major League Baseball to postpone the team’s four-game series at Detroit.

The series was to have been played at Comerica Park from Tuesday ( Wednesday in Manila) through Thursday ( Friday in Manila).

’You think about how quickly something like this can spread,’’ Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak said. ‘’Until it touches you, you sometimes might not believe it, but needless to say we know this is very real and we know it moves quickly and it moves silently, but it can infect a lot of people fast.’’

Mozeliak said that five of those who tested positive did not show symptoms. He said the others did — headaches, cough, sniffles, low-grade fever.

‘ ’ And of those eight, it’s a variety of symptoms but nothing at this point requiring anything like hospitalization,’’ Mozeliak said.

The Cardinals have been in quarantine since Thursday in Milwaukee, where their series with the Brewers was also postponed due to positive tests. The league has postponed 21 games because of virus concerns 12 days into the season.

The Cardinals’ situation comes after the Miami Marlins had an outbreak in their traveling party that sidelined half their players, raising concerns about the viability of this pandemic-shortened season.

Brewers outfielder Lorenzo Cain announced on Saturday he would not play the rest of the season and cited ‘’ all of the uncertainty and unknowns surrounding our game at this time.’’ Teammate Shelby Miller also opted out.