Before the start of the NL Wild Card Game, Washington Nationals’ manager Davey Martinez, who was the bench coach in Chicago when the Cubs ended their 108-year championship drought, was asked if he’d been able to offer any advice to his team about how they could deal with the ghosts and history of postseasons past as they tried to bring the World Series back to D.C. for the first time since 1933.
“Yeah, you know, for me, these are big moments,” Martinez said. “But we play it all year. We left Spring Training, we started off slow, we picked it up, we’re in a position now to do really good things.