Passan says the series is on “the brink of cancellation” after players from both teams recently banded together to tell MLB officials they want the series moved to Miami. According to Passan, the league is expected to bow to their wishes.

“Right now, no, we don’t want to,” Pirates reliever Tony Watson, who has assisted team MLBPA representative Gerrit Cole in gathering information about potential exposure to the virus, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last month. “We don’t want to go down there, because there’s too much risk. We don’t have all the facts either. We’ll see where it goes.”

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Last week, the Centers for Disease Control announced that a man in his 70s had died in Puerto Rico from internal bleeding after contracting the virus, the first Zika-related death in the United States. As noted by Passan, mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus are expected to make their way to the U.S. mainland by this summer, though it’s doubtful MLB will cancel any games because of it.

Chief among the players’ concerns, Passan writes, is that they could contract the Zika virus in Puerto Rico and then infect their families upon return. The virus can be transmitted sexually, and women who are pregnant or hope to become pregnant are advised not to travel to countries that have shown high rates of the virus because of the birth defects it can cause.