Heading into his first start of the 2021 season, Max Scherzer hadn’t pitched in competitive action for ten days, going back to a sim game in West Palm Beach, and the last few of the ten days were spent in a GM Mike Rizzo-mandated quarantine as the club sorted out their COVID-19 issues after four players tested positive and seven more were identified through contact tracing and put into actual quarantine, leading to the postponement of the three-game set with the New York Mets that was supposed to start the season.
Having finally been cleared to return to action, the Nationals worked out in D.