The first-place Marlins are headed home from a 23-day road trip, where tomorrow they'll play in an empty stadium.
Well, there was no game at Marlins Park last night because more than a dozen players and coaches tested positive for Covid-19. The game in Philadelphia, between the Phillies and the Yankees, was also cancelled as the Marlins had just used the visiting team’s dugout and locker room. One of baseball’s most beautiful qualities – its constancy – was once again laid low by the virus, three games into the season.
I'm curious to see if the cardboard cutouts at Marlins Park tonight will be of famous Cuban exiles.
Yesterday evening I went to two Walgreens and two CVSs before I found what I was looking for: tennis balls. The first three stores had basketballs, footballs, tee balls, wiffle balls, softballs, but not the ball for the sport played with grace and near perfection by the woman who grew up within a lob of one of the stores, Chris Evert.