No one with the Nationals is going to use it as an excuse, but with nine expected Opening Day players unavailable at the start of the season following a COVID-19 outbreak in D.C., a different lineup was out on the field in Washington’s season-opener series with the Atlanta Braves.
Davey Martinez’s club took the series opener with the Nationals’ NL East rivals, but dropped both ends of Wednesday’s doubleheader in the nation’s capital. So how did the fourth-year skipper view the three-game set as a whole? Was it a missed opportunity since they were in each of the games, but only got one of three, or a good showing from a depleted roster?