Dave Roberts: Dodgers could've 'done better' handling Justin Turner's COVID case

In perhaps the understatement of the year, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts admitted the team "could've all done things differently and done better" in handling Justin Turner being allowed to celebrate the Dodgers' World Series win despite testing positive for COVID.

Turner was removed during the eighth inning of the final game of the series after the Dodgers discovered that the third baseman had multiple positive tests. Turner was taken into an examination room and told he had to be in isolation, but he ignored those instructions and headed to the field after the Dodgers sealed their World Series win over the Tampa Bay Rays.

While Turner and the Dodgers were not punished for their negligence, the team was obviously criticized for letting Turner back onto the field, especially when a photo surfaced of Turner without a mask sitting next to Roberts, who is a cancer survivor.

It seems that Turner's carelessness did, in fact, cause an outbreak for the Dodgers. According to Minyvonne Burke of NBC News, nine people within the Dodgers organization have now tested positive for COVID-19.

Roberts and the rest of the Dodgers organization have attempted to downplay their own role in the outbreak, with Mookie Betts even defending Turner being on the field despite knowing that he had COVID. Roberts' admission of guilt is pretty mild, but it at least shows that the Dodgers have some awareness of how irresponsible it was to let Turner celebrate when he could have easily put others' lives at risk.