Kyle Schwarber and Jon Lester were the talk of the town in Chicago in the series opener on Monday night, with both long-time Cubs, who were members of the 2016 World Series club, welcomed back by fans in Wrigley Field, and the organization they played for from 2015 to 2020.
In the Nationals’ pregame notes for the first game of four in the friendly confines, they also mentioned the six seasons that Starlin Castro played for the Cubs (2010-’15), the year Alex Avila was acquired at the trade deadline (2017), and the time that Davey Martinez spent on the bench the Windy City as Joe Maddon’s bench coach with the Cubbies from 2015-17.