MLB schedules lots of doubleheaders for Cardinals, starting Saturday in Chicago

With two weeks of games to make up, the St. Louis Cardinals will be playing a lot of doubleheaders the rest of the season.

Major League Baseball announced new dates for makeups of many of the games that were postponed while the Cardinals dealt with a COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in positive tests for 10 players and eight staff members.

The first doubleheader will be played Saturday in Chicago against the White Sox, starting at 12:10 p.m. This includes a rescheduled game from Friday night, which was a rescheduling of the original Field of Dreams game Thursday in Dyersville, Iowa. Adam Wainwright has been announced as the starting pitcher for the first game.

Doubleheaders also have been scheduled against the Cubs next Monday and Wednesday. With the three games already scheduled between the clubs next week, that will be five games in three days between the NL Central rivals. Including another doubleheader now scheduled for Sept. 5, when the clubs had been slated to play once, that will restore the three games postponed from Aug. 7-9.

An Aug. 10-12 series with the Pirates that was wiped out will be made up as part of a newly scheduled doubleheader in St. Louis on Aug. 27, which had been an open date for both clubs, and a doubleheader Sept. 18, a date the teams already were scheduled to play a single game in Pittsburgh.

Two of four postponed games against Detroit have been rescheduled as a Sept. 10 doubleheader. The other two will be rescheduled at a later date.

The first series felled by the coronavirus, a three-game set in Milwaukee, already had been rescheduled in the form of doubleheaders Sept. 14, 16 and 25.