Rejoice! Baseball is finally on the horizon. Any Opening Day is special, but I’m not sure there was a better way possible for the Yankees to start the delayed and abbreviated 2020 season than a series in Washington D.C. against the defending champion Nationals. The Nats fought through thick and thin to take an improbable World Series crown last season, going 5-0 in potential elimination games in the playoffs and outlasting the Houston Astros in a memorable Game 7.
The Nationals have made some changes going into 2020, though. They re-signed postseason heroes Howie Kendrick and Stephen Strasburg and added Starlin Castro, Will Harris, Eric Thames and Asdrubal Cabrera to the mix, but lost All-Star Anthony Rendon, as well as Brian Dozier and Matt Adams.