In his Zoom call with reporters on Friday, Washington Nationals’ GM Mike Rizzo said that the plan was to play the Atlanta Braves in the first game of a three-game set this Monday after a season-opening series with the New York Mets was postponed when four Nationals’ players tested positive for COVID-19 and five others ended up in quarantine with the club’s contact tracing identifying them as having been in close contact with someone who tested positive.
In order to play on Monday, however, Rizzo said, the players, who have been off since they played the final Grapefruit League game in West Palm Beach a week back (Monday, 3/29), would have to get some sort of workouts in.