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ARLINGTON, Texas — The 2020 Major League Baseball season ended in the most appropriate way possible: with a trophy presentation and a possible superspreading event.
After canceling 43 regular-season games this year to fend off potential outbreaks, Major League Baseball was hours away from completing the season in relative triumph on Tuesday night with a clinching Game 6 of the World Series. Then, in the second inning, the league learned that Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner had tested positive for COVID-19. It was Turner’s Monday sample that had returned the result, so the league immediately expedited the testing of his Tuesday sample.