Attendees included World Central Kitchen leadership and volunteers, Nationals ownership and front office executives, and several food access partners that helped serve the community last year.

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Lerner’s statement, naturally, made no mention of ownership’s own culpability. The Nationals had a top-10 payroll seven of eight seasons between 2014 and 2021.

Cue six years of nondescript misery, best evidenced by the number of days spent over .500: 2020: 0. 2021: 4, the last on June 30. 2022: 0. 2023: 0. 2024: 2, the last on May 10.