The Toronto Blue Jays lost to the Washington Nationals 4-0 on Wednesday, a sentence that on the surface carries little to no substance beyond a box score. Of course, one layer beneath it begins to unveil just how borked baseball during this pandemic has increasingly become.
The Blue Jays were the home team in that game, batting in the bottom-half of innings. The game, though, was played in Nationals Park, Washington’s home. That’s because the entire country of Canada thought the Blue Jays attempting to routinely cross borders to ply their trade in Toronto and other US-based MLB cities was an awful idea, and put the kibosh on it altogether, forcing Toronto to look for homes in Pittsburgh and Baltimore.