Nationals listen to fans for 2019 game times

When the Washington Nationals released their 2019 regular season schedule last Wednesday, the start time for every home game was listed as TBD. On Monday, the team shared a video promoting next year’s schedule that includes first pitch times for all but one home game, and there weren’t any surprises or major changes from previous years. In July, the Nationals solicited feedback from fans about preferred start times for weeknight games at Nationals Park via an anonymous survey of people on their email distribution list. “We thought it made sense to gather fan feedback on this topic,” said a Nationals spokeswoman, who added that the team hadn’t surveyed fans about preferred start times in at least five years. “The results came back that fans overwhelmingly liked 7:05 p.m. start times.” The schedule is always subject to change, but weeknight home games are once again slated to start at 7:05 p.m. Home games on Saturdays will start at 4:05 p.m., except for Washington’s second game of the season on March 30, which is scheduled for 1:05 p.m., and a pair of Saturday home games in August with 7:05 p.m. starts. Sunday home games at Nationals Park will begin at 1:35 p.m. The start time for the Nationals’ home game against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday, May 18, is still listed as TBD.