MLB lockout: Opening Day officially postponed

Photo by Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty ImagesIt’s official. Opening Day is postponed, and the first two series of the 2022 MLB season are canceled.

The owners and players still haven’t come to terms on a new Collective Bargaining Agreement, three months after the league instituted a lockout at the beginning of December. Negotiations heated up over the past couple weeks, but it was too little too late, and now the season will be affected by the labor dispute.

“The calendar dictates that we are not going to be able to play the first two series of the regular season, and those games are officially canceled,” said commissioner Rob Manfred around 2 p.m. PT on Tuesday, per insider Mark…