As we head into the 20th year of Nationals baseball, we will look back at the iconic moments and players that made this franchise what it is today. With that in mind, there is no other place to start than with a moment by the franchises most iconic player, Ryan Zimmerman. Let’s rewind the clock back to March 30th, 2008, and re-live the moment when employee number 11 opened up Nationals Park.
Moving out of RFK Stadium and into Nationals Park was a statement of intent, that the Nationals were here to stay. The then state of the art stadium was a shining light to the baseball world that the games national pastime was not leaving the nations capital again.