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Nationals' Doolittle wants fans to wear masks so MLB season can happen

Though he’s still not 100% sure about playing in 2020, Washington Nationals closer Sean Doolittle wants there to be baseball this year. And he says the public needs to pitch in.

During an extensive conversation with reporters Sunday, Doolittle said the baseball season won’t go very far if people don’t help quell the spread of COVID-19 by wearing masks in public.

“We’re trying to bring baseball back during a pandemic that’s killed 130,000 people (in the U.S.),” Doolittle said. “We’re way worse off as a country than we were in March when we shut this thing down.