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The prospect of holding a 2020 MLB season took a big step forward on Monday, as California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the state is on track to begin hosting sporting events by the “first week or so in June.”
Newsom clarified that any such resumption of sports would happen without fans in the stands, and that it would come with “modifications and very prescriptive conditions.” But the bottom line is that they could start happening at all in some form, as long as current trend lines hold in the coming weeks.
The governor’s announcement came on the heels of encouraging data in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.