This week’s series in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the Washington Nationals’ first since 2008 when the Twins still played in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
Target Field didn’t open until 2010.
The three-game set was the first matchup with the current AL Central-leader since April 22-24 in 2016 in Nationals Park, so Davey Martinez’s squad had some work to do to get familiar with the ballpark and the opposing team heading into the series.
“We had some guys come out early, especially the outfielders, and take some fly balls and balls off the wall and play that little thing in right field,” Martinez told reporters before the series opener.