WASHINGTON —
Fernando Tatis Jr. loves to play baseball.
It is obvious in the way he runs out every grounder, so as not to make it routine for the opposing infielder.
It is obvious in the way the 20-year-old tosses the ball high in the air before a game and catches it and then tosses it again and catches it again and then tosses it again ... just like the 12-year-old rest of us used to do.
It is obvious in his smile and his dirty uniform and his celebratory sugar cane chop.