A broadcast crew finishes-up near the Kansas City Royals' dugout in an otherwise empty ballpark after the cancellation of a spring training baseball game between the Royals and the Seattle Mariners Thursday, March 12, in Surprise, Arizona. “Pretty shocked,” Davis said, “just how quickly things have escalated.”Major League Baseball delayed the start of its season by at least two weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak and suspended the rest of its spring training schedule. “It’s important to know that some things are bigger than baseball, bigger than sports at the moment. The minor league baseball season, which was to start April 9, also will be delayed along with qualifying in Arizona for this year’s Olympic baseball tournament and for next year’s World Baseball Classic. I don’t have a high degree of confidence that we will start on April 9,” he said.-AP

Source: The Standard March 12, 2020 19:52 UTC