WASHINGTON – As Max Scherzer and the reigning champion Washington Nationals played baseball’s first exhibition game in more than four months Saturday, a handful of fans watched from afar -- really far, seated on a high-rise building’s glass balcony beyond left field.
Nationals owner Mark Lerner and general manager Mike Rizzo each had a better view from the Nationals Park stands, nowhere near each other and both wearing masks, part of many unusual sights and fake, piped-in sounds as Major League Baseball crept closer to next week’s opening day amid the coronavirus pandemic. “You just have to accept it.
Seems like every day there’s a challenge,” said Scherzer, the three-time Cy Young Award winner who gave up three-run shots to old friend.