At least 17 Miami Marlins players and staff members have reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus. The team is currently self-quarantining in Philadelphia.

Major League Baseball announced it postponed three games — two for the Miami Marlins and the Yankees-Phillies game — after at least a dozen Marlins players and staff tested positive for COVID-19.

A Marlins-Orioles matchup and a Phillies-Yankees game have both been postponed while the league carries out additional testing. The league's heavily modified 2020 season started last week.

Olympic volleyball player Erik Shoji discusses what he's up to this summer now that the 2020 Tokyo Games have been pushed to next year.

With Major League Baseball stadiums empty due to coronavirus restrictions, teams are pumping in crowd noise and fans are finding a way to attend — in cardboard form.

Leila Fadel talks to ESPN's Howard Bryant about Major League Baseball.The shortened season is finally underway, punctuated by concerns about the pandemic and social justice.

The Tokyo Games was postponed until July, 2021 due to COVID-19, forcing thousands of athletes to re-order their training schedules. Those athletes share a bond with U.S. Olympians 40 years ago.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Anna Wiederkehr of FiveThirtyEight about the growing popularity of long-distance endurance runs during the pandemic.

The 2020 season for Major League Baseball has finally begun. The Texas Rangers will play at a new but mostly empty stadium. Ballpark officials came up with a way to cheer players during the game.

With the Summer Olympics delayed due to the pandemic, some U.S. athletes now share a bond with Olympians from 40 years ago whose dreams also ended because of factors they couldn't control.

Major League Baseball begins its 2020 season Thursday despite the coronavirus raging in the U.S. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Evan Drellich of The Athletic about the shortened season this year.

Major League Baseball is back. Only this year, each team is scheduled to play 60 regular season games. The abbreviated schedule may affect the game more than any other sport.

Major League Baseball's delayed and shortened regular season gets underway Thursday. There will be no fans in the stands and plenty of health and safety protections for the players and team officials.

The fans can't come back because of the coronavirus pandemic, so Major League Baseball will pump crowd sounds into the empty ballparks when its season begins on July 23.

With soccer stadiums empty of fans because of COVID-19, broadcasters are juicing up their feeds with prerecorded sound of crowds. Major League Baseball will take a similar approach.