Mets get Nationals makeup dates for COVID-19 postponed games

PHILADELPHIA — June simply received busier for the Mets.

MLB introduced Wednesday that two of the three games postponed within the scheduled season-opening sequence between the Mets and Nationals in Washington have been rescheduled for June. The different shall be performed September.

The preliminary sequence was postponed after Nationals gamers examined constructive for COVID-19 heading into the scheduled opener on April 1.

A cut up doubleheader has been scheduled for June 19 — throughout the Mets’ subsequent journey to Washington — to make up one sport. The Mets will then return to Nationals Park on June 28, which was a mutual off-day for the groups, to play one other makeup. The Mets are dwelling the day gone by in opposition to the Phillies earlier than beginning a sequence in Atlanta on June 29.

“It’s undoubtedly not superb,” Michael Conforto mentioned after the Mets’ 8-2 loss to the Phillies. “We are undoubtedly not completely satisfied to lose an off day to journey there, however these are issues which might be past our management.”

The ultimate makeup is about as a part of a cut up doubleheader on Sept. 4 throughout the Mets’ ultimate scheduled journey to Washington this season.