WASHINGTON — All those summers at Busch Stadium II watching her father Mike Bertani all but run the place and sometimes slipping onto the field for a run herself, or the seasons as a teenager when she worked as an usher, gave Shawn Bertani glimpses into the gears behind the ballgame. The perspective she gained as a St. Louis kid still guides her as a Washington Nationals executive.

The days are long, the season longer, the grind real and game not always kind.

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“It’s the moments,” Bertani said Saturday, sitting in the Nats’ family room at Nationals Park.