When Sean Doolittle clutched his side and motioned to the dugout that September night in 2020, the left-handed reliever didn’t realize it would be his final moment on the Nationals Park mound as a member of the home team.
Doolittle had torn his right oblique. Nationals manager Dave Martinez and athletic trainer Paul Lessard trotted out to him. Then Doolittle walked off the field for the last time as a member of the Washington Nationals.
“That was it,” Doolittle said. “That was it for me.