© Stan Szeto | 2019 Sep 9
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Major League Baseball announced that the start of the regular season will be pushed back two weeks, setting a target date of April 9 for Opening Day.
There is a strong possibility that date gets pushed back even further, but assuming it doesn’t, what exactly happens when baseball resumes. Do the Giants play the Dodgers, who they were scheduled to play in their first game on April 26? Or do they pick up the current schedule, and face the Diamondbacks at Oracle Park? Will the games be made up, or will MLB go with a shortened schedule?
Giants CEO Larry Baer did his best to bring clarity to those questions when he joined Murph & Mac on Friday.
“If the question is ‘Who do we play April 9?’ We would resume the schedule as it’s laid out,” Baer said. “What would have to be determined with the schedule is would it be 162 games.
“This is obviously an MLB call, they have to centrally make these decisions of course. Would you play the first couple weeks that were missed because you have two weeks missed if you start April 9? Then would you play those games on the backend? Or would the season be a shortened season, which has happened in baseball before, which would be a major league baseball decision that would be made at the time.
“Everything is TBD, but the way it’s laid out now April 9 of course…would be as scheduled. So April 9 would be a day game against Arizona.”
As it currently stands, the Giants would have 12 games to make-up (two series vs. the Dodgers and six games vs. the D-Backs) if the season starts on April 9.
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