{"id":29102,"date":"2021-04-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2021-04-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T04:00:00","slug":"2021-nats-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2021\/04\/2021-nats-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Nats Opening Day POSTPONED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Welp <s>we made it &#8212; another<\/s> Washington Nationals Opening Day, (or in this case, night) is<s> here<\/s> POSTPONED. It&#8217;s on time this year, but hardly normal. Only <s>5,00<\/s>0 fans are entering Nationals Park a game this month as the pandemic continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hhXpsoaZt6\">pic.twitter.com\/hhXpsoaZt6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Washington Nationals (@Nationals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nationals\/status\/1377651129396387842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/mets-nationals-opening-day-postponed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Mets-Nats opener postponed; no makeup set<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <em>nationals.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Positive COVID-19 tests and exposures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welp is spelled with a curly W, yet again. The season starts with <a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/washington-nationals\/2021\/03\/5-nats-player-to-miss-opening-day-after-1-tests-positive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>COVID cases on the team<\/strong><\/a> (<em>WTOP<\/em>) after a successful spring training of no positive test results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Back on the field<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2020 season was forgettable in an abbreviated season. The victory lap from the <a href=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/tag\/2019-world-series-champions\"><strong>2019 World Series<\/strong><\/a> never happened. While that&#8217;s a shame, being denied a victory lap is better than not having reason for one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been significant turnover since those halycon days of October 2019. The big three of the rotation are all back and seemingly healthy. <strong>Max Scherzer<\/strong> takes the mound to start the season, so expect an early inning home run because he&#8217;s too amped up and his fastball is flat. We&#8217;ll be reminded throughout the season that we can gamble on such things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stephen Strasburg<\/strong> is in his familiar second spot in the rotation after losing most of 2020 to an injury. If it had to happen, last year was the one to miss. <strong>Patrick Corbin<\/strong> in third in the rotation after a forgettable 2020 followed <strong>Jon Lester<\/strong> and <strong>Joe Ross<\/strong>. The latter opt-ed out in last year&#8217;s pandemic season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking of opting out, <strong>Ryan Zimmerman<\/strong> returns and has been raking in the spring. The ball doesn&#8217;t carry as well in April in the northeast as it tends to in Florida in March, so we&#8217;ll see. He&#8217;s expected to start against lefties and be a late inning replacement at 1st base for <strong>Josh Bell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2021\/03\/31\/nationals-defense-josh-bell-starlin-castro\/?itid=ap_barrysvrluga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Barry Svrluga covered my concerns<\/strong><\/a> about Bell and the rest of the defense in a column. In short, the pitching staff needs to strike out a lot of batters and the hitters need to score a lot of runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prediction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team that is the healthiest may be the one that wins the NL East. The Mets got better, the Braves won the division the last two years. The Miami Marlins even made the postseason. The Philadelphia Phillies seem to the least changed.<br><br>I don&#8217;t see anybody running away with the division and I don&#8217;t see more than one wild card getting the play-in invitation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlanta 90-72<br>New York 89-73<br>Washington 86-76<br>Philadephia 80-82<br>Miami 79-83<br><br>BOOM: 92 Wins &#8211; rotation pitches like they are 4 years younger, Joe Ross breaks through, Zimmerman, Bell and Schwarber all hit well enough to overcome defense, Soto and Turner keep improving, bullpen finds a way<br><br>BUST: 78 wins &#8211; rotation shows their age, Ross doesn&#8217;t get going, Zimmerman, Bell and Schwarber are middling at the plate, Turner and Soto regress, bullpen is well, the bullpen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nats vs. Mets Q&amp;A<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once again, <a href=\"http:\/\/t\/wfy\/2021\/04\/2021-nats-vs-mets-qa-with-eric-mcerlain.html\"><strong>I&#8217;m joined by Eric McErlain<\/strong><\/a> to discuss what&#8217;s going on with the DC&#8217;s Opening Night opponent, the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gamblor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember when you were younger and still went to parties? They would always be some dullard trying to get you bet on football or something. &#8220;How else are you going to make a Bengals &#8211; Jaguars game interesting?&#8221; or something like that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2021\/02\/02\/place-your-bets-a-guide-to-sports-gambling-in-dc-and-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>All of pro sports is that guy now<\/strong><\/a> and a sports book is coming to Nationals Park. Every inning, you&#8217;ll probably have gambling ads too. Maybe an improvement over the pharmaceutical ads? Probably not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quick hits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ll seemingly never see the gold trimmed World Series Champion uniforms again. Good! I don&#8217;t equate them with winning it all, they make me think of a bad season in a terrible year.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2021\/03\/nats-carter-kieboom-hard-seltzer.html\"><strong>Carter Kieboom getting a booze partnership<\/strong><\/a> aged&#8230;poorly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No presidential first pitch this year. If you really want to see one, I have them (and other Opening Day festivities over the centuries) in <a href=\"https:\/\/jus.tia.mybluehost.me\/website_3c1e0e40\/2018\/04\/nats-opening-day-highlights-presidents-pagentry-from-newsreels-to-now.html\"><strong>this old blog post<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s going to be 47ish degrees tomorrow &#8211; I&#8217;m not heartbroken I&#8217;m missing the opener for the third time in 4 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Further reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Washingtonian<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2021\/03\/30\/big-changes-at-nationals-park-2021-season-what-you-need-to-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Big Changes at Nationals Park for 2021: What You Need to Know If You Want to Go<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonian.com\/2021\/03\/30\/what-different-sports-media-are-predicting-for-the-washington-nationals-2021-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Different Sports Media Are Predicting for the Washington Nationals\u2019 2021 Record<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Post<\/em> (paywalled)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2021\/03\/31\/nationals-starting-rotation-scherzer-strasburg-corbin\/\"><strong>The starting rotation remains Washington\u2019s foundation \u2014 and its greatest hope<\/strong><\/a> Bos is typing with a #1 foam finger again<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2021\/03\/19\/masn-orioles-peter-angelos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener sponsored nofollow\">What are the Orioles and MASN doing? Maybe getting ready to go on the market.<\/a><\/strong> Bad faith from bad people in Baltimore continues.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>UniWatch<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/article\/sports\/2021-uniwatch-mlb-season-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>The 2021 Uni Watch MLB Season Preview<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; <em>Insider Hook<\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>ESPN<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/page\/coverstory032621\/welcome-juan-soto-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>WELCOME TO JUAN SOTO&#8217;S MLB<\/strong><\/a><br>When I first heard the Nats had a COVID positive, I just assumed Soto was on that list because of this story.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">and don&#8217;t forget&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You Gotta Have Heart (from Damn Yankees)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ry8CpIg2fvU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp we made it &#8212; another Washington Nationals Opening Day, (or in this case, night) is here POSTPONED. It&#8217;s on time this year, but hardly normal. Only 5,000 fans are entering Nationals Park a game this month as the pandemic continues. Mets-Nats opener postponed; no makeup set &#8211; nationals.com Positive COVID-19 tests and exposures Welp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,106],"tags":[967,1119,1222,1252,1341,1595,1711],"class_list":["post-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nats-mlb-2021","category-washington-nationals","tag-juan-soto","tag-max-scherzer","tag-nats","tag-new-york-mets","tag-patrick-corbin","tag-ryan-zimmerman","tag-stephen-strasburg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2021 Nats Opening Day POSTPONED - William F. 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