Ad Disclosure
Mets/Nationals Series Cancelled
Published:
We mentioned Thursday that the new-look New York Mets are gonna have to wait to start their 162-0 campaign, because their opening day game against the Nationals was postponed due to a COVID positive in the Washington camp.
Now the series has been cancelled:
Said last night on Baseball Tonight that the Nationals-Mets series was in jeopardy, and now it’s officially being canceled. Mets will start their season Monday in Philadelphia. Nationals will know when they have a better sense of their COVID outbreak, which now numbers four.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) April 2, 2021
This means the Phillies are gonna get kind of dicked here, because they’ll face the Mets’ top three starters. They’ll get Jacob deGrom on Monday, then Marcus Stroman and David Peterson. Carlos Carrasco is on the 10-day and Noah Syndergaard is coming back from Tommy John surgery.
If you want to look at it the other way, and find the positive, at least the Phils will be three games in and will have found their footing as we start this new season. Maybe the Mets come in rusty. Who knows?
New York and Washington are going to have to make up their games via doubleheaders at some point this season.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com