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        <title><![CDATA[MLB’s coronavirus outbreak spreads to Phillies as coach, staffer test positive]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Phillies might not have escaped the Marlins&#8217; COVID-19 web after all.</p><p>A Phillies coach and a member of their home clubhouse staff have both tested positive for the virus, the club announced Thursday. No players were found to be positive in Wednesday&#8217;s latest round of testing, but the two cases forced the team to cancel all activity at Citizens Bank Park &#8220;until further notice.&#8221;</p><p>The Phillies were not going to play until Saturday at the earliest as they awaited test results. Now, their series against the Blue Jays has been postponed, <a href="https://twitter.com/bnicholsonsmith/status/1288889756793950209">according to Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo</a>. The last time they played was Sunday, when they hosted the Marlins, who are now up to 17 players and two coaches who have tested positive for COVID-19.</p><p>The league <strong>is looking into how the Marlins&#8217; outbreak began</strong>, The Post&#8217;s Joel Sherman reported, with one official saying, &#8220;Something happened massively disruptive to the process that is not going on anywhere else.&#8221;</p><p>The Phillies series this week with the Yankees, who were re-routed to play two games against the Orioles, was postponed out of caution. That prudence appears to be warranted.</p><p>Four Marlins had tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of Sunday&#8217;s game, but the rest of the team still decided as a group to go ahead and play the game.</p><p>&#8220;All I can tell you is that there was plenty of communication before that game,&#8221; Phillies general manager Matt Klentak told reporters Wednesday. &#8220;There were others at the league level who knew about the positive test before we did. So the determination was made at that point that it was safe.</p><p>&#8220;Obviously, the escalation of that came on Monday with nine more positives. That&#8217;s what led to a lot of the scheduling changes that are now taking place.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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