WASHINGTON — The inning began simply enough: Amed Rosario smacked a line drive up the middle off Brandon Kintzler for a base hit. The Mets were trailing the Nationals, 2-1, top of the seventh. They’d already erased a 1-0 lead, but Bryce Harper had taken Hansel Robles deep in the bottom of the sixth.
That had energized the modest Nationals Park crowd of 28,952.
Rosario’s single seemed to have the same effect on the Mets. You don’t always learn everything about a baseball team in the first nine days of the season, but you do get nuggets, you do get snippets.