Justin Turner COVID-19 timeline: When did Dodgers star take a look at optimistic & why did he rejoice World Collection win?

Justin Turner was faraway from Recreation 6 of the World Collection after the seventh inning. No purpose was given for why the Dodgers took out their three-hitter and slick fielding third baseman. 

Solely after the Dodgers clinched their first World Collection title since 1988 with a 3-1 win over the Rays did Fox break the information: Turner had acquired a optimistic take a look at consequence for COVID-19 in the course of the recreation and was instantly eliminated. That got here after his take a look at from the day earlier than had returned an inconclusive consequence. Whereas Turner was supposed to stay in isolation after his removing from the sport, he finally returned to the sphere for postgame celebrations, the place he took half in pictures, each together with his masks on and off.

This can be a take a look at how Turner was allowed to play an element in Tuesday’s recreation, and what led to him returning to the sphere for the celebrations regardless of having simply examined optimistic.

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What occurred to Justin Turner?

MLB gamers submitted each day spit assessments in the course of the postseason to check for the coronavirus. The Dodgers submitted these assessments Monday, the off day between Video games 5 and 6, as they’d executed your complete postseason. MLB has shipped its assessments to a lab in Utah, and that is what it did with these Monday assessments. For no matter purpose, these explicit take a look at outcomes got here again late, in line with ESPN.  

ESPN reported that MLB obtained a name within the second inning of Recreation 6 saying that one take a look at consequence had come again inconclusive: Turner’s. The Tuesday spit assessments had additionally arrived in Utah, per ESPN, and MLB advised the lab to fast-track Turner’s Tuesday take a look at. The outcomes have been supposed to return again in about two hours from that second-inning name. Turner remained within the recreation. In accordance with ESPN, no MLB participant had been faraway from a recreation or advised to not play in the course of the season due to an inconclusive take a look at consequence.

Within the seventh inning, MLB acquired one other name from its lab saying that Turner had examined optimistic for COVID-19 from his Tuesday take a look at, per a number of studies. The league knowledgeable the Dodgers, who changed Turner at third base with Edwin Rios.

Later footage from Fox confirmed Turner seeming to learn of the information within the dugout and heading down the tunnel to the clubhouse. He was not seen within the preliminary celebration pictures after the Dodgers recorded the ultimate outs. In accordance with The Athletic, Turner was requested by league officers, safety personnel and a few Dodgers officers to stay in isolation after the sport. However Turner returned to the sphere about an hour after the sport’s conclusion.

The Athletic reported that Turner was on the sphere for about 20 minutes, hugging teammates and posing with the championship trophy and within the group picture. At occasions, he wore a masks over his mouth and nostril, however at different factors Turner’s masks served as not more than a chin masking. 

ESPN’s Jeff Passan spoke on “Get Up!” on Wednesday morning and mentioned the reason for the way Turner wound up again on the sphere was “easy.” Passan reiterated what he tweeted late final evening: “The reply is he went again out and no person stopped him. He was requested to isolate and didn’t.”

Passan went on to make clear Wednesday morning that the Dodgers had but to go away Arlington, Texas, as they awaited the outcomes of PCR assessments to see whether or not anybody else with the group was at present optimistic for the coronavirus. 

When did Justin Turner take a look at optimistic for COVID-19?

Turner’s Monday take a look at for COVID-19 got here again with an inconclusive consequence, which is not unusual. In accordance with ESPN, that inconclusive take a look at confirmed “some traits” of a optimistic take a look at, however the medical doctors working the take a look at have been unable to amplify the leads to a manner that may present them for positive. MLB acquired that inconclusive consequence in the course of the second inning of Recreation 6.

On Tuesday, Turner and the remainder of the Dodgers once more had undergone spit assessments like they did daily in the course of the playoffs. As soon as Turner’s Monday take a look at got here again inconclusive in the course of the second inning of Recreation 6, MLB requested the lab to expedite Turner’s Tuesday take a look at. ESPN reported that consequence would come about two hours after that request.

The Dodgers eliminated Turner from Recreation 6 main into the eighth inning as Edwin Rios got here out to play third base. Fox footage reveals Turner being spoken to within the dugout earlier than he exits with a employees member down the tunnel. A number of postgame studies point out that the Dodgers discovered Turner examined optimistic after receiving a name from MLB, which had simply heard from the lab, in the course of the seventh inning. Turner flew out within the backside of the sixth inning and performed protection within the high of the seventh inning, which might recommend the consequence filtered right down to the Dodgers by the underside of the seventh.

The Athletic reported that Dodgers’ utility man Kiké Hernández seen president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman speaking to Dave Roberts earlier than the eighth inning and puzzled what was occurring earlier than he overheard them discussing Turner. 

What did Rob Manfred, others say about Justin Turner’s optimistic take a look at?

When Fox’s Tom Verducci spoke with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred after Recreation 6, he requested one query about Turner. Manfred mentioned Turner was faraway from the sport and “instantly remoted to forestall the unfold (of COVID-19).” Friedman echoed that sentiment in his postgame press convention when he was requested why the Dodgers did not comply with the principles, responding, “We did. … When he got here out of the sport, he was quarantined in a physician’s workplace over to the aspect.”

Roberts advised Rosenthal on Fox after the sport that he did not know every thing in that rapid second. The Dodgers knew of the optimistic take a look at consequence, however Roberts wasn’t positive whether or not it might have been a false optimistic. Roberts added that he did not contact Turner in the course of the group image as a result of he “did not know.”

Friedman added extra of his pondering on Turner as his press convention went on: “Once more, I believe lots of these cases are people who find themselves round completely different and new individuals. The truth that we have been all in a bubble collectively means from a contact tracing standpoint, we have been all in that net. Now it’s vital that all of us take a look at adverse what number of occasions, or regardless of the protocols are, to ensure that we don’t exit and doubtlessly unfold it to different individuals.”

The Dodgers’ two largest stars, Mookie Betts and Clayton Kershaw, have been each requested about Turner after the sport. 

Betts: “He’s J.T. While you consider J.T., you consider the L.A. Dodgers.”

Kershaw: “I really feel horrible for him, however he’s the explanation we received. He’s a part of it. They will by no means take away the truth that we’re World Collection champions. For the remainder of his life, he’s going to be the principle purpose we received a World Collection.”

The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal additionally reported one nameless quote from a Dodgers official concerning the postgame pondering. “We’ll get him an image, then get him off (the sphere),” the official advised Rosenthal. “We will not deny him that. The man is the center and soul of the group.”

Turner himself did ship out a tweet lower than an hour after the sport ended, clarifying that he had no signs and felt good.

Justin Turner COVID-19 timeline

— Monday, Oct. 26: Turner and the remainder of the Dodgers partake of their each day spit take a look at for COVID-19.

— Tuesday, Oct. 27, Second Inning: MLB receives phrase that Turner’s Monday take a look at got here again with an inconclusive consequence. Turner stays within the recreation, and MLB asks its lab in Utah to fast-track Turner’s Tuesday take a look at.

— Tuesday, Oct. 27, Seventh Inning: MLB is advised Turner’s spit take a look at from Tuesday got here again optimistic for COVID-19. The Dodgers take away Turner from the sport earlier than the eighth inning. Turner was advised at that time to isolate, per a number of studies.

— Late Tuesday, Oct. 27 into early Wednesday, Oct. 28: Turner is seen on Globe Life Discipline celebrating and taking photos together with his teammates about an hour after the Dodgers received the World Collection. In some pictures, Turner is accurately carrying his masks. In others, it is wrapped under his chin.