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Dodgers’ Justin Turner, who played eight innings in game 6, wasn’t able to celebrate his team’s World Series win on Tuesday night because he apparently tested positive for Coronavirus.
According to Fox Sports, Turner was removed from the game after his test results came back while he was still playing.
"After the completion of the game tonight, we were informed by MLB that Justin Turner received a positive COVID test and that's why he was removed from the game." pic.twitter.com/EOxcMlNs5R
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 28, 2020
Sources confirm to ESPN that Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner tested positive for COVID-19 and was removed from Game 6 of the World Series.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 28, 2020
Update: Here’s how the MLB handled the Turner situation on Tuesday.
1/MLB was alerted by its lab in the 2nd inning that Justin Turner’s test from Monday had come back inconclusive for COVID-19. So MLB asked its Utah lab to run both that sample again and the sample from today. The sample from today was positive. So MLB alerted #Dodgers head
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 28, 2020
2/of baseball operations Andrew Friedman to have Turner pulled from the game. There was not a consideration to halt the game, since MLB had a similar situation earlier this year with the #Reds Nick Senzel and had him pulled and continued the game. The #Dodgers were asked to mask
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 28, 2020
3/up on the field in celebration, but they will be tested further tomorrow.
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) October 28, 2020