{"id":663944,"date":"2026-04-05T03:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663944\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T03:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T03:33:44","slug":"washington-nationals-celebrate-21st-birthday-during-opening-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663944\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals celebrate 21st birthday during opening weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Nationals and lifelong fan, Sorcha Lewis shared a festive 21st birthday celebration with a ceremonial first sip.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The Washington Nationals celebrated their birthday on Saturday, April 4 at Nationals Park during home opening weekend in style.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On April 4, 2005, the Nationals played their first game as D.C.’s team and on the same day, lifelong Nationals fan, Sorcha Lewis was born.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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RELATED: Nationals fans show up in numbers for this year’s home opener<\/a><\/p>\n

With the help from Budweiser<\/a>, the Nationals and Lewis celebrated their 21st birthdays. Before the start of the game, Lewis took the mound with a Budweiser in hand, raised a toast to 21 years of Nationals memories and led fans in a\u00a0ceremonial first sip<\/a>. Lewis also received a special surprise video message for her birthday from her favorite Nationals legend, Ryan Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Nats celebrated their 21st birthday with party hats, Budweiser giveaways, live music and a special happy birthday sing-along during the game. On opening day, there was also a photo opportunity for fans to snag pictures with the famous\u00a0Budweiser Clydesdale<\/a> in Center Field Plaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, some of the weekends festivities were dampened as the Los Angeles Dodgers take a 2-0 series lead during the Nationals home opening weekend. After suffering a 13-6 loss on Friday, the score was almost identical on Saturday, 10-5.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Dodgers scored in almost every inning besides the last two when they were up by 10 runs after Kyle Tucker hit a single that gave the green light for Alex Call to score. The Nationals had cold bats until the third inning when Luis Garcia Jr. sent a triple to right field, allowing Jacob Young to score. But by then, the score was 6-1 and the Nats went on to score just four more runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Nats fall to 3-5, 0-2 at home. They’ll get one more crack at the 2025 World Champions on Sunday with first pitch scheduled for 1:35 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Nationals and lifelong fan, Sorcha Lewis shared a festive 21st birthday celebration with a ceremonial first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2398],"tags":[5,4,415,414,71,4222],"class_list":{"0":"post-663944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-nationals","11":"tag-washington","12":"tag-washington-nationals","13":"tag-washingtonnationals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663944","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=663944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}