One-time Nationals’ closer Sean Doolittle is back in D.C. this week for a three-game series in the nation’s capital between his new and former teams. Doolittle signed with Cincinnati this winter, after three-plus seasons in Washington, and the Reds’ left-hander talked, in advance of his return, about an important date in his own and his old franchise’s history.
This past weekend was the second anniversary of the day the Nationals fell to 19-31 in May of 2019, before turning the campaign around, eventually going on to win the World Series, the first by a D.C.-based team since 1924.