Cubs historical sleuthing: Nationals Park edition

This one was sent to me by BCB reader PACubsfan1. A reminder! If you’ve got old Cubs or Wrigley photos you’d like me to sleuth, send ‘em over (to the email address on my profile here).

This is obviously Nationals Park — the big “W” in the photo is the giveaway.

But the Cubs uniform numbers aren’t really readable. The only one I can tell for sure is the number 1, worn by the third base coach. That’s Gary Jones, who was the Cubs’ 3B coach from 2014-17.

That narrows it down some. But other than seeing a righthanded batter with a two-digit number on his uniform, and the Cubs having the bases loaded, this could be any time during that span.

Let’s narrow it down a bit. It’s obviously a day game. The…