Major League Baseball, Players Inch Closer to a Deal After Meeting

Dade Hayes Finance EditorMajor League Baseball, in the face of mounting logistical challenges due to COVID-19, released its official 60-game season schedule Monday.The long-delayed campaign, with teams playing barely one-third of their customary 162 regular-season games, will kick off July 23 with two marquee matchups televised by ESPN.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorIt’s been a week of bad news for Los Angeles as coronavirus cases spike and new restrictions were imposed, and now comes news that the first Major Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium since the Carter administration has been canceled.This will be the first time in 75 years that MLB won’t field its Midsummer Classic. The last time was amid the 1945 travel restrictions as World War II was winding down in Europe and U.S.

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Erik Pedersen Managing EditorBeat the drum and hold the phone — the sun came out today. Nearly three months after Opening Day was canceled amod the burgeoning coronavirus outbreak, Major League Baseball and its players union have agreed to play a truncated 60-game regular season starting in late July.The sides finally sorted out their differences after the pandemic sidelined the season that was to begin in March and has kept America’s pastime off the field since.

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