St. Louis Cardinals: Tests confirm second straight day of negatives

For the second straight day, the St. Louis Cardinals have received no new positive tests. This second round of quarantine could come to an end soon.

Encouraging momentum is building. For the second straight day, the St. Louis Cardinals have received completely negative results back on all of their tests.

It has been a very rough couple of weeks for everyone who cares about the Cardinals, and it’s great to get two straight days of good news.

If you haven’t seen it in every blue checkmark tweet about the Cardinals, they haven’t played since July 29th and have played just five games. They also currently sit at 17 total COVID-19 cases. Two straight days of negative tests are what the MLB protocol has as the requirement for returning to practices/play. However, the Cardinals aren’t going to follow the league’s protocols to the line this time.

Last week, following the protocol led to the team having to shut down again because of more positives. This time, the Cards won’t be so silly.

More indications that Friday’s game is in doubt. Every indicator I’m aware of makes me think the target is Saturday, perhaps with a doubleheader Sunday. https://t.co/dnxnQHs1lg
— Jeff Jones (@jmjones) August 12, 2020

For now, the team is going to continue to quarantine and test, putting as many days of negative tests together as they can before returning to practice. If Friday’s game is truly rescheduled to Sunday, they can potentially wait until Thursday afternoon to practice for the first time. In doing this, the team would have four days of negative tests in a row before reconvening.

Practice Thursday and Friday then travel to Chicago on Saturday. From there, the team will likely have at least one game per day until the end of the season.

The good news is that the Cardinals may get back some help when they return to play.

One thing that has happened as #stlcards had a second quarantine is players like Yadier Molina and Paul DeJong, who were part of the Milwaukee positives, have had the time to wait the minimum seven days and still get in as many as three tests to begin their return to the team.
— Derrick Goold (@dgoold) August 12, 2020

We will have to wait until later in the week to see the results of Wednesday’s tests, but if Wednesday and Thursday’s tests are both negative, Yadier Molina and Paul DeJong could be back. They may not be the only ones returning either.

The Cardinals are going to need as many hands on deck as they can get to just make it through this season and getting back at least DeJong and Molina would be huge.

The team is going to be in desperate need in the coming days of more good news. The team can claw their way out of this slow start, they just need to get back on the field.

For the second straight day, the St. Louis Cardinals have received no new positive tests. This second round of quarantine could come to an end soon.

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