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Washington Nationals announce two players tested positive for COVID-19

Washington Nationals’ skipper Davey Martinez started his third Zoom press conference of Spring Training 2.0 with some unfortunate, but not totally unexpected news given what’s been happening around the majors as MLB tries to get things going for a 2020 campaign.

“Per MLB’s intake testing,” Martinez said, “we’ve had two guys test positive with COVID-19, out of 60.”

Martinez clarified that the two positive tests were from players who have not yet been at Nationals Park since everyone returned to the nation’s capital last Wednesday for testing and the start of workouts last Friday, and needed to test negative before they came back into the ballpark.