Sean Doolittle said last week that when he looked back on his first All-Star experience in 2014, it wasn’t the game itself which stood out in his memory, but all the events and the excitement that go along with the Midsummer Classic.
The 89th annual All-Star Game is, if you somehow haven’t noticed, being held in Nationals Park tonight, and that means that before the rain started to fall in the nation’s capital, they rolled out the red carpet for the players’ arrival at the park in Washington, D.C.
Here’s a quick look at some of the Nationals (we didn’t get to ask what they were wearing because we were trying to find a way to get our Uber driver close to the park with all the street closures in the neighborhood).