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Coronavirus expert Dr. Fauci: MLB should consider not playing past September

There’s no guarantee we will have a 2020 Major League Baseball season, at least according to comments made by commissioner Rob Manfred on Monday.

But if MLB and the players union do come to terms for an abbreviated campaign, they should consider not playing into October, says Dr. Fauci, the nation’s top coronavirus expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

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“If the question is time, I would try to keep it in the core summer months and end it not with the way we play the World Series, until the end of October when it’s cold,” Fauci told The Los Angeles Times.