Orioles opponent preview: Washington Nationals

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports There’s been a popular talking point since MLB and the Players’ Union settled on a 60 game season this summer due to the coronavirus: if playoff teams had been decided after two months back in 2019, the Nationals wouldn’t have made it into the dance. And they won the whole thing last year!

Makes you think, doesn’t it?

Anyway, here we are with everyone trying to make the best of a bad situation. Baseball keeps chugging along despite a few team outbreaks that have threatened to derail the entire season but have failed to do so up to this point.

At least the next opponent for the Orioles doesn’t live far away at all. The Birds will load up the buses and take a…