It’s about a half-hour before tonight’s scheduled first pitch, it’s still raining at Nationals Park and the tarp is on the field.
Center fielder Adam Jones is not in the starting lineup for tonight’s series opener against the Washington Nationals.
While Jones told reporters before tonight's game that there was nothing specific keeping him out of the lineup, manager Buck Showalter said that Jones was not available to start today because of back spasms.
“Everybody has some different spasms now and then,” Showalter said. “Believe me, if Adam could play, he’d play. It’s my decision. I’m not going to run him out here.