Juan Soto hit a homer, Max Scherzer was warmly embraced, Patrick Corbin was up and down and that Nationals' season opened with a 5-1 loss at home.
pandemic. Last year, a virus outbreak wiped out the opening weekend series, forcing the Nationals to isolate while everyone else played. So after those disappointments — not to mention a three-month lockout this winter — what was a messy forecast Thursday, amounting to a few extra hours of waiting in the rain?
Ruiz was 4 when the Milwaukee Brewers signed Escobar as an international free agent in 2003. But on a squad glued together with fringe veterans, Escobar and Ruiz, now 23, both play premium defensive positions, showing General Manager Mike Rizzo’s preferred blend of old and young. And for at least one night, Escobar hid his age with a single, then a diving swim move to avoid a tag at first, then a strong throw from deep in the hole, then a laser to Ruiz in the fourth-inning relay.
“I didn’t like the three batters hit with two strikes, that’s for sure,” Martinez said, referencing mistakes by Corbin, Machado and Mason Thompson. “I mean, that’s got to go away fairly quickly."
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