WASHINGTON -- Somebody in the front office of the Washington Nationals has a sense of humor, or at least a sense of irony.
It will be Tanner Roark Bobblehead Night on Friday at Nationals Park and it will come against the Texas Rangers, the team that drafted Roark out of the University of Illinois in the 25th round in 2008 and traded him to the Nationals in 2010.
"My dad actually told me it was aligned up if there were no rainouts," Roark said Thursday. "It is definitely very cool coming from a town of 6,000 and having a bobblehead.