The future comes to Nationals Park Monday night.
Josiah Gray, the top young pitching prospect Washington acquired at the trade deadline from the Los Angeles Dodgers for Max Scherzer and Trea Turner, will likely be throwing to another key piece of that deal, catcher Keibert Ruiz, in the series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies.
For Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo, it will be a satisfying moment one month after he and his front office transformed this organization with trades that bought 12 new and hopeful faces to the franchise — with Gray and Ruiz being two of the high-profile new arrivals.