In 50 games before Saturday afternoon’s with the Philadelphia Phillies in D.C., Washington’s 30-year-old rookie, Joey Meneses, had a .323/.361/.567 line, with 13 doubles, 12 home runs, 29 RBIs, 12 walks, and 29 runs scored in 216 plate appearances, with his 65 hits, “the most by any rookie through his first 50 games in franchise history (MON/WS),” as the Nationals noted in their pregame notes, and 19 multi-hit efforts in his first two months in the majors following 10 years in the minors and playing internationally before making his MLB debut.
Meneses had also, “hit safely in nine of his last 10 games, going 15-for-39 (.