ARLINGTON, Texas—The weirdest year in baseball history ended Tuesday night in a way that somehow seemed normal: with the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrating a World Series championship for the first time since 1988. Then, moments later, the weirdness kicked back in to add a surreal coda to baseball’s pandemic season.

As the Dodgers gathered on the field for the trophy presentation, it emerged that a key member of the team—third baseman Justin Turner—had left the game after the seventh inning because his coronavirus test from Tuesday…

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