A lot of things about the 2020 season were different for the Washington Nationals, just as they were for every other team in baseball.
Fewer games, an altered schedule, no fans in the stands, different rules, and quarantining in hotels for the entire season all created a surreal environment for baseball, straining its reputation as a timeless game.
But for the Nats, there were even more differences. Coming off the city’s first World Series championship since 1924, there was no chance to raise the banner in front of their fans, no chance for championship swag giveaways, and no chance to mingle freely with the community that supported them for the first 14 years of their existence in the nation’s capital.