{"id":663877,"date":"2026-04-05T02:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663877\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:41:26","slug":"nationals-fan-enjoys-21st-birthday-beer-on-field-in-ceremonial-first-sip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663877\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals fan enjoys 21st birthday beer on field in &#8216;ceremonial first sip&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 4, 2026, 9:41 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Enjoying a cold one on your 21st birthday is a right of passage for many young folks, including this Washington Nationals fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During Saturday&#8217;s Nationals home game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, fan Sorcha Lewis celebrated her 21st birthday with a ceremonial first sip of beer. Funny enough, Washington played its first game 21 years ago on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Lewis and the Nats sharing a day-and-date birthday is pretty awesome. Now, both the fan and the franchise are old enough to share a beer together. Talk about a perfect day at the ballpark&#8230; well, almost perfect&#8230; the Nationals lost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Darn&#8230; well&#8230; we hope the beer was good, at least!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">That&#8217;s baseball for you!<\/p>\n<p>Expert MLB daily picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (mlbpicks)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/picks\">Unique MLB betting insights only at USA TODAY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 4, 2026, 9:41 p.m. ET Enjoying a cold one on your 21st birthday is a right of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2398],"tags":[67525,5,4,415,38734,67526,80180,75751,67528,67529,67527,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-663877","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-nationals","12":"tag-sstssportsmlb","13":"tag-sstsnmlb","14":"tag-tagalcoholic-beverages","15":"tag-taglocal-affiliate-food","16":"tag-tagoverall-positive","17":"tag-tagsports-news","18":"tag-typestory","19":"tag-washington","20":"tag-washington-nationals","21":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116349795254917827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}