When the Cardinals were rearranging furniture and wearing out the Wi-Fi at the Pfister Hotel in Milwaukee a week ago, they weren’t the first Major League Baseball team to experience an outbreak of COVID-19 and have to quickly quarantine, en masse, on the road.
The Miami Marlins had blazed that trail the previous week. They helped author a regimen for how to react, became the first trial run for baseball’s protocols, and lit a route for the Cardinals to follow, and they did — back into open air, back to the field. But then suddenly back into isolation, back into the unknown with Friday’s three new positive tests.