A few days in, the sound of the 2020 baseball season is that of an iPhone dropped from a height of three or four inches onto a tabletop.
Sean Doolittle, pitcher for the Washington Nationals and one of hundreds of players, coaches and staffers living the unsteady reality of the when and where, had Sunday morning been tested for COVID-19. Just like Major League Baseball’s protocols promised, he’d been tested two days after the last.
He’d worked for three months to prepare himself for baseball, to show up for teammates and himself, to earn his living, maybe to have a little fun.