SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants are hopeful COVID-19 hasn’t infiltrated their clubhouse for the second time this season, regardless of inserting Thairo Estrada on the COVID record earlier than Sunday’s sequence finale in opposition to the White Sox.
Though Estrada has proven signs for greater than 24 hours, he has returned a number of damaging assessments, supervisor Gabe Kapler stated after Sunday’s 13-4 loss. Nonetheless, he was nonetheless positioned on the COVID record, leaving the Giants with just one shortstop on their roster.
In a corresponding transfer, the Giants recalled Yermín Mercedes from Triple-A Sacramento.
Estrada was a late scratch from the lineup Saturday with sickness. His signs to this point have been a sore throat and a headache, Kapler stated. Underneath MLB’s protocol, gamers are allowed to be positioned on the COVID record “for signs that require additional evaluation,” even when they haven't examined optimistic.
Estrada was briefly within the Giants clubhouse Sunday morning and was not carrying a masks.
“We moved him via the clubhouse as rapidly as potential,” Kapler stated, including that no different gamers have exhibited signs.
If he does take a look at optimistic, Estrada would be the sixth member of the Giants to catch the virus this season. In a earlier outbreak on the finish of April, Mike Yastrzemski, Brandon Belt, Zack Littell, Dominic Leone and Steven Duggar all missed time on the COVID IL.
Every participant missed seven video games; MLB’s COVID protocols say 10 days is the baseline absence following a optimistic take a look at.
The Giants’ depth at shortstop was already being examined with Brandon Crawford on the injured record. Estrada had taken over main duties at brief, however Donovan Walton logged his third straight begin there Sunday.