After a long and incredibly active offseason for the Washington Nationals, Opening Day finally arrived. It was time for Dave Martinez and his team to show off the new and improved approach they had been working on all spring to get the fans excited.
Instead, a 2-0 loss to the New York Mets followed, and it felt like a lot of what we had seen from this team last season. It wasn’t so much the fact they lost, it was the way they lost that was most puzzling.
Admittedly, it was only one game, and that one game was against one of the best pitchers in baseball in Jacob deGrom.