{"id":99279,"date":"2020-10-28T09:58:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T06:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/justin-turner-covid-19-flap-casts-pall-over-world-series-finale\/"},"modified":"2020-10-28T09:58:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T06:58:45","slug":"justin-turner-covid-19-flap-casts-pall-over-world-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/justin-turner-covid-19-flap-casts-pall-over-world-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"#Justin Turner COVID-19 flap casts pall over World Series finale"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Justin Turner COVID-19 flap casts pall over World Series<\/a> finale<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 After all the hoops Major League Baseball jumped through to get to this marvelous point, it failed to stick the landing.<\/p>\n

2020 continues to be a foe for the ages, and if you don\u2019t acknowledge that \u2014 as the sport most certainly did not in the final moments of its hard-earned campaign \u2014 you pay a price.<\/p>\n

Just moments after the Dodgers defeated the Rays on Tuesday night, 3-1 in World Series Game<\/a> 6 at Globe Life Field, securing their first title in 32 years, the game\u2019s broadcaster Fox reported that veteran Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner, the former Met, left the contest after the seventh inning when he tested positive for the coronavirus.<\/p>\n

Suddenly Kevin Cash\u2019s decision to lift a dominant Blake Snell hardly seemed so controversial after all.<\/p>\n

The news<\/a> of Turner\u2019s diagnosis sparked multiple questions: Why wasn\u2019t the game immedia<\/a>tely put on ice upon learning this news? Why were players and bubbled family members, many not wearing masks, allowed to celebrate on the field after the game? If they had paused, or if the Rays had come back to win this game, would there have been a multi-day break out of an abundance of caution (to revive a popular phrase from the regular season) before resuming action?<\/p>\n

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A maskless Justin Turner, who had to exit Game 6 after testing positive for COVID-19, manager Dave Roberts and other maskless players pose for a team picture after the Dodgers\u2019 3-1 World Series-clinching victory over the Rays.<\/span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And as we seeked out answers to those questions, stunningly, Turner himself re-emerged on the field, posing for photos with his teammates, even removing his mask for at least a moment. Good god. At best, it served as a horrendous optic. At worst? Turner, who quickly tweeted that \u201cI feel great, no symptoms at all,\u201d spread this ultra-dangerous disease to others.<\/p>\n

\u201cI totally understand the question. If there were people around him without masks, that\u2019s not good optics at all,\u201d said Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman, who \u2014 unlike commissioner Rob Manfred \u2014 partook in a news conference. \u201cI think from our standpoint, the people who were around are people who would be in the contact tracing web anyway. The subsequent tests we\u2019re going to take are really important so that if any of us are potentially positive, we do not spread it to other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, Turner might have spread COVID during the photo op. Even if he didn\u2019t, he violated Rule 2.3.1 in MLB\u201ds 2020 Operations Manual: \u201cIn the event that a Club is informed of a confirmed positive test for COVID-19 while the Covered Individual is at a Club facility, the individual who tested positive must immediately isolate himself or herself in the Dedicated Isolation Area or, if possible, outside the Club facility, pending further guidance from his or her Team Physician.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t state enough how big of a role he has played with the success of this organization,\u201d Friedman said of Turner. \u201cI don\u2019t think there was anyone who was going to stop him from getting out.\u201d <\/p>\n

How about an MLB security official?<\/p>\n

As The Post\u2019s Joel Sherman reported, MLB learned during the second inning Tuesday that Turner\u2019s coronavirus test from Monday had come back inconclusive. MLB reacted to that by asking its Utah laboratory to run Turner\u2019s tests for both Monday and Tuesday, and the latter came back positive. MLB swiftly notified Friedman to get Turner out of the game; Edwin Rios took over third base for the top of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Why not call the game right then and there and pick up when the coast is clear, even if it meant hitting the pause button for days? MLB had a precedent at its disposal, a Reds game in which center fielder Nick Senzel set off similar alarms and left early (app<\/a>arently Aug. 7 at Milwaukee, the only game Senzel left early this season) as the game continued. Why that\u2019s a medically sound process, I\u2019d love to know; the Reds didn\u2019t play from Aug. 15 to 18 when a player tested positive.<\/p>\n

And even if you concede to that precedent, and putting aside Turner\u2019s obvious transgression, why risk further spread by letting the other Dodgers congregate, hug and pose for photos afterward with their bubbled family members? I get and respect how hard they worked to get here. I respect the virus more, however. 2020 is all about adjusting on the fly.<\/p>\n

Friedman said the Dodgers planned to get rapid tests upon returning to their hotel Tuesday night, their travel<\/a> plans to be determined. It\u2019s all very fluid. It\u2019s all highly unfortunate.<\/p>\n

MLB, the team officials and the players did nothing less than amazing work to get here. But we\u2019ve learned, so painfully, that you can\u2019t let up against this disease that has killed more than 225,000 Americans. <\/p>\n

They were so close to a blowout victory, to putting on a triumphant season that successfully engaged fans, sent positive messages about social justice and gave us legendary moments. Yet now we close up shop talking about the blown save. About lessons that clearly still must be learned and applied, because don\u2019t forget: 2021 might not be much easier.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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