Center fielder Denard Span is off the disabled list after missing the past six weeks with a lower back injury and for the first time all season the Nationals have their planned Opening Day starting lineup available for a game.
Here’s the lineup it took 124 games for the Nationals to have together and healthy:
C - Wilson Ramos
1B - Ryan Zimmerman
2B - Anthony Rendon
3B - Yunel Escobar
SS - Ian Desmond
LF - Jayson Werth
CF - Denard Span
RF - Bryce Harper
That’s a pretty good group, which is a big part of why so many preseason projections had the Nationals running away with the NL East. Instead they’re 62-61 and 5.5 games behind the Mets
