The Milwaukee Brewers will open their 2021 Major League Season this afternoon against the Minnesota Twins (1:10 p.m.) at American Family Field and it comes after a COVID-19 scare.
An unidentified player had a false positive during COVID-19 testing earlier in the day on Wednesday.
“At the time we got it, we did not know it was a false positive, we treated it like a positive,” said President of Baseball Operations David Stearns. “We went through Major League Baseball’s protocols and we are now confident that it was indeed a false positive. We went through our entire contract-tracing protocol, went through our quarantine protocol.”
“Out of an abundance of caution and through the recommendation of Major League Baseball, we have gotten all our players re-tested today. But we don’t anticipate any issues at this point. We are confident this was a false positive and we’ll have our full complement of players tomorrow.”
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