Oakland As return to action after stressful coronavirus hiatus
Channel: mixyam
Date: 2020-09-05

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A pile of Starbucks bags littered Liam Hendriks Houston hotel room floor by the time he was cleared to escape the league-mandated quarantine. Id gotten very familiar with Uber Eats, Hendriks said. Five days will have separated news of Daniel Mengdens coronavirus positive test Sunday morning and the As game against the San Diego Padres Friday.  Four games were postponed, which means three doubleheaders within the week are on the As horizon. Were treating it kind of like an All-Star break, manager Bob Melvin said. In those five quasi All-Star Break days, the As spent at least two nights locked away in their Texas hotel rooms  they rested, did small space-friendly workouts and drafted for the team Fantasy Football league.  Half the team, including Hendriks, left for the Bay Area Tuesday after testing negative for the virus.  Others, most of whom had sat near Mengden in the auxiliary dugout, stayed back an extra day for additional testing. While locked solo in his room, Hendriks  who is at-risk with an autoimmune liver disease  considered the worst-case scenario.  With his wife, Kristi, he discussed opting out of the season should an outbreak occur within the team. It was stressful, to put it very lightly, Hendriks said.  Its been a roller coaster and Im glad we got through that stage as a team. Marcus Semien had gotten an MRI on his left side the day before news of Mengdens positive test hit his phone in a text message.  He saw the negative and twisted it into an immediate positive. I think us being on the road, it mightve actually been a blessing because we would have been home around our families wondering if we were positive, said Semien, who lives in the East Bay with his wife and two boys. Unwelcome reality hit the As, and left a mark.  They had two days, Wednesday and Thursday, to slip back into baseball mode.  A surging Padres team is in Oakland to greet them. Well