MIAMI -- For a couple different reasons, the Nationals are thin at first base as they begin a three-game set in Miami on Friday night. With Ryan Zimmerman day-to-day with a left oblique injury and Clint Robinson on paternity leave, Tyler Moore made the start on Friday.
Zimmerman last played on Monday vs. the Mets, before sitting out the next two days with the bothersome oblique. He said prior to Friday's contest that the injury progressively became worse and that the plan going forward is simply rest.
"It's still kind of a day-to-day thing and hopefully it continues to get better," Zimmerman said.