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#What Mets’ schedule may look like in coronavirus aftermath

#What Mets’ schedule may look like in coronavirus aftermath

August 23, 2020 | 8:19pm

Following a lost weekend for the Mets, indications pointed toward a workout at Citi Field on Monday followed by a series starting against the Marlins there Tuesday.

And the possibility exists of a very busy week ahead for the Mets, who could play as many as three doubleheaders by the end of next weekend.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said the teams could play one or two doubleheaders during the next scheduled Subway Series in The Bronx, which would begin Friday. And Marlins president Michael Hill said he expected his team to face the Mets beginning Tuesday, with the chance of a doubleheader Thursday, since the upcoming series is the last time the two teams are slated to meet during the regular season.

“They’re on our schedule to open up Tuesday night, so we’re expecting that we have a three-game series with the Mets until we hear otherwise,’’ Hill told reporters Sunday in Miami. “But the expectation also would be that at some point, given the fact that this is the last series of the year versus the Mets, that we are planning to make up that lost game.”

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The Marlins have already been severely impacted by their own coronavirus outbreak, when their season was paused. And the Yankees had a series against the Phillies postponed earlier in the season, although they were able to pivot and play Baltimore instead.

A statement Saturday night released by the Mets said two rounds of COVID-19 tests taken by the traveling party from New York to Miami late in the week had all returned negative. In addition, tests for all close contacts that remained in Miami were negative.

The tests on the traveling party were conducted Thursday night and Friday morning at Citi Field, after a position player and coach tested positive for the coronavirus in Miami, which caused four straight days of postponements. The player and coach who tested positive remained in quarantine in Miami.

There remains no plan for the Mets and Yankees to play on Monday’s mutual off day. The teams have mutual days off on Sept. 3 and 14.

The Mets have not been allowed to use Citi Field this weekend. They last played on Wednesday in Miami, when they beat the Marlins. A day later, the Mets were notified about an hour before the scheduled first pitch of the positive test results.

Before the unscheduled break, the Mets had started to break out of their offensive slump. They won three straight games in Miami and were headed home to face an injury-riddled Yankees team. But the postponements also allowed them to realign a pitching rotation that was in disarray.

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