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It began on April 28, 2012, when the electric kid launched a rocket into the wall in center field at Dodger Stadium for his first big-league hit.
It ended on July 8, 2021, when the greatest to ever put on the uniform gave up a grand slam to a reliever fresh out of Triple-A.
This was the Washington Nationals championship window. It’s over.
Of the major team sports that I follow, baseball is the easiest to view each game in a vacuum. Individual games are relatively inconsequential because there are 162 of them in a season. Hope springs eternal at the ballpark because any team truly can beat any other on any given day. That’s why Nationals manager Davey Martinez’s 2019 soundbyte about going 1-0 every day resonated with the team and the fans. Ultimately, that’s all you can do when you view each game in a vacuum.