Luis García went on the 10-Day IL (retroactive to August 13th) with a left groin strain back on August 15th, but the 22-year-old infielder healed up quickly enough to go out on a rehab stint earlier this week, and he got enough at-bats, and reps at second base (where he was set to move with CJ Abrams up to play shortstop full-time), the Nationals decided to call him back up in advance of last night’s series opener with Cincinnati’s Reds in Washington, D.C.
“He was ready,” García’s manager, Davey Martinez, told reporters in his pregame presser on Friday afternoon.