© Kyle Terada | 2020 Jul 5
Good baseball news is a rarity these days, but the Giants received a piece of it on Wednesday morning. A day after the club decided to cancel their spring training 2.0 workout due to a delay in the results from their COVID-19 tests over the weekend, the Giants announced they’d return to the field upon learning not a single member of the team or staff tested positive.
“The Giants received their test results from July 4th and all are negative among players and staff,” the team said in a statement. “Workouts at Oracle Park will resume today.”
This is the first team wide test that has come back 100 percent clean, and is a sign that things are heading in the right direction just 15 days before the Giants are scheduled to open the season at Dodgers Stadium. The previous round of testing saw two members of the club test positive. Before that it was young pitcher Luis Madero, before that 2019 first-round pick Hunter Bishop.
The Giants were one of a number of teams that had to cancel their workouts on Tuesday, thanks to a miscommunication between MLB and the league’s testing site in Utah regarding the holiday weekend.