Well-traveled Milwaukee Brewers first baseman and outfielder Logan Morrison figures it will be easy for him to adjust to games without spectators this season.
“I played for the Rays and the Marlins, so I’m used to it,” Morrison said of Florida’s two MLB teams that have long struggled to fill their ballparks.
The Brewers and other Major League Baseball teams worked out again Monday in mostly empty venues, mindful the long-awaited start to the season is barely a week away and fans won’t be coming. So teams are trying as best they can to ramp up the competitiveness of summer camps conducted in isolation.
Several teams announced upcoming exhibition games, including the Houston Astros visiting the Kansas City Royals, who will hit the road to face the St. Louis Cardinals, and the Cleveland Indians taking on the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Brewers will play intrasquad games for several nights starting Tuesday and are dubbing them the Blue and Gold World Series, a nod to manager Craig Counsell’s alma mater, Notre Dame. Catcher Omar Narvaez and outfielder Avisail Garcia will draft teams for matchups designed to approximate the intensity of regular-season games.