In addition to their first September call-ups (catcher Raudy Read, infielder Adrián Sanchez, and outfielder Andrew Stevenson), the Washington Nationals reinstated four players, (Sean Doolittle, Ryan Zimmerman, Jeremy Hellickson, and Austin Voth), from their respective stints on the Injured List as rosters expanded when the calendar turned to the final month of the regular season.
Doolittle and Zimmerman are, of course, the two players who’ll likely contribute the most to the stretch run, if they can get up to 100% quickly as they recover, Doolittle from right knee tendinitis, and a lot of work over the first five months of the season, and Zimmerman from a bought with plantar fasciitis and a partial plantar fascia rupture which happened in late July, after just 11 games back from his first IL stint of the season (which cost him 55 games).