If this is what baseball in 2021 will look like, consider it a significant if tentative, upgrade from last year’s slog.
“It was very emotional,” Martinez said of an opener that began with a 19-player set of transactions and ended with comebacks from 3-0 and 5-4. “It ended up really, really well. I’m going to relax, sit in my office and enjoy a glass of wine.
“I did not want to play any more innings. We have two games tomorrow.”
Martinez’s sobering message – OK, addled with perhaps a bit of cabernet – was a reminder the Nationals and Braves will play two on Wednesday, because they did not play on a perfectly good Monday. It was a reminder that at some point, they’ll have to make up three games with the New York Mets after a three-game season-opening series was wiped out as the Nationals and MLB tried to get their arms around the greased pig of a COVID-19 outbreak that unfortunately seeded itself as the club flew home from spring training.
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