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Major League Baseball is closing in on the final stages of a postseason bubble format as it nears completion of its season that’s been shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to people close to discussions, MLB has selected California and Texas as its two neutral locations with ballparks, including Dodger Stadium in Los Angles and Petco Park in San...

The New York Mets received two positive tests for COVID-19 in their organization Thursday, Major League Baseball said, prompting the postponement of two games. NBC New York’s Bruce Beck reports.

Seven St. Louis Cardinals players and six staff members have tested positive for COVID-19, causing Major League Baseball to postpone the team’s four-game series at Detroit.

Big league doubleheaders will now become a pair of seven-inning games in baseball’s latest radical rule change during a season reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic

José Reyes has retired from baseball, almost two years after playing his final game. The 37-year-old, a four-time All-Star shortstop for the New York Mets, made the announcement Wednesday on Twitter. “A young boy growing up in the Dominican Republic, I could have never dreamed of achieving all that I have through this incredible game,” he wrote. “Mets fans, what…

NBC Miami sports reporter Ruthie Polinsky dishes on the Miami Marlins COVID-19 outbreak and how it could derail the 2020 MLB season.

The Miami Marlins have canceled their home opener against the Baltimore Orioles after at least 14 players have tested positive for COVID-19, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan.

Major League Baseball and the players’ union agreed to expand the playoffs from 10 teams to 16 for the pandemic-delayed season, a decision that makes it likely teams with losing records will reach the postseason

Major League Baseball teams are trying to find ways to remain engaged with fans during a pandemic-delayed season in which games won’t include spectators

Major League Baseball will pipe in crowd noise when the shortened season begins in ballparks with no fans

The Yankee’s and Met’s are preparing for opening day next week, John Chandler reports.

Baseball players got a sense of what the game will be like without fans in the stands upon returning for workouts last week.

The Cleveland Indians are reviewing their contentious nickname

Baseball’s minor leagues canceled their seasons because of the coronavirus pandemic, and the head of their governing body said more than half the 160 teams were in danger of failing without government assistance or private equity injections

Neighboring businesses says Yankees home games can’t return fast enough. News 4’s John Chandler reports.

As baseball scrambles to start an abbreviated season, the prevailing mood is one of nervous excitement

Major League Baseball issued a 60-game schedule Tuesday night that will start July 23 or 24 in empty ballparks as the sport tries to push ahead amid the coronavirus following months of acrimony.

Major League Baseball plans to unilaterally issue a 60-game schedule for its shortest season since 1878 after the players’ association rejected a negotiated deal of the same length, putting the sport on track for a combative return to the field amid the coronavirus pandemic

Extra innings that start with runners on second base, games ending in ties and re-entry are among the possibilities for a radically altered 2020 Major League Baseball season, one limited to a maximum 60 games by teams that claim they can’t afford more due to the coronavirus pandemic

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred and union head Tony Clark reached what MLB understood to be a framework to start the pandemic-delayed season on July 19 or July 20, but the union did not immediately embrace it as a deal