The commissioner's office said Wednesday that it is starting a full investigation of the 35-year-old third baseman.
He was quarantined in a doctor's office off to the side, Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said.
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"Immediately upon receiving notice from the laboratory of a positive test, protocols were triggered, leading to the removal of Justin Turner from last night's game," MLB said in a statement Wednesday.
Both teams were travelling home from the Dallas area on Wednesday in co-ordination with their local health authorities, a person familiar with the arrangements said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement was made.
No additional players received positive results from rapid PCR tests early Wednesday, the person said, but the wife of one Rays player tested positive, the person said.
I don't think there was anyone that was going to stop him from going out," he said.
"I think from at least my perspective and not watching it super closely with everything going on, but I think he was mindful of other people, especially other people that he hadn't already been in contact with.
MLB statement on Justin Turner, which claims he “emphatically refused†to comply with isolation measures.
"But I think from our standpoint, I think the people who were around him were people that would be in the contact tracing web, anyway, with just how closely a lot of us have been around each other," he said.
"And so now I think the subsequent tests we're going to take are really important to figure out what we do and to make sure that any of us that are potentially positive do not spread it to other people.".
"Obviously there's a lot of protocols and things that we're allowed to do and not allowed to do in getting tested every day, and I would say it's been a pretty successful season getting to this point and getting to the playoffs," he said then.
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