JUPITER, Fla. (AP) — The upcoming Major League Baseball season just got a little shorter.
Commissioner Rob Manfred says the sport will lose regular-season games over a labor dispute for the first time in 27 years after acrimonious lockout talks collapsed in the hours before management’s deadline.
Manfred said he is canceling the first two series of a season that was set to begin March 31, dropping the schedule from 162 games to likely 156 games at most.
Manfred said the league and union have not made plans for future negotiations with the lockout in its 90th day.
