Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY

The undertones of playing baseball for first time amid pandemic that’s killed 144,000 Americans were undeniable. It was apparent across ballpark.

Players clutched a black cloth that winded from the Nationals’ first base line around to the Yankees on the third-base line.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a two-run homer in the first inning as the Yankees topped the Nationals 4-1 in a game that was called in the top of the sixth.

Fauci has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984.

Juan Soto hit 34 home runs with 110 RBI as a 20-year-old in 2019.

Nakken, the first female coach in the major leagues, was assigned to coach first base on Monday night’s exhibition game.

Baseball’s 2020 season officially begins this week with plenty of questions about how the 60-game campaign will work out.

In the time of COVID-19, the medical, training and strength and conditioning staffs of MLB teams have taken on triple duty trying to ensure the safety.

The Phillies and Nationals exhibition game provided a sense of what playing baseball during the coronavirus pandemic will really be like.