When the music started and the clapping of the arms soon followed and filled Nationals Park with a kind of chaotic, infectious energy, manager Dave Martinez looked at Josh Harrison, Josh Bell and the other newcomers on the team who hadn’t experienced such a scene before.
As Gerardo Parra walked to the plate as a Nationals player for the first time since Game 5 of the 2019 World Series, that’s when “Baby Shark” began playing from the speakers. And with a Mets mound visit, the song kept playing and playing — with the crowd continuing to clap their jaw-arms together.