WASHINGTON - The Nationals team of 2019 will be – no matter what happens in the future – remembered fondly by baseball fans in the Washington region.
But that World Series winner was also significant to area alums and followers of the University of Virginia and ODU.
The 2019 champions had three products of Virginia colleges on the World Series roster: former Virginia Cavalier teammates Ryan Zimmerman and Sean Doolittle, and ODU product Daniel Hudson.
Zimmerman was born in North Carolina and grew up in the Tidewater region of Virginia while Doolittle came to Charlottesville from New Jersey.