Sloppy first inning dooms the Nationals in a 6-3 loss to the Blue Jays

Jake Irvin’s outing started with a groundball off the bat of Toronto’s George Springer. It was the type of routine play that lets a pitcher settle in, one that third baseman Nick Senzel has made without difficulty many, many times. But an opening at-bat that seemed ordinary began the Washington Nationals’ unraveling during a 6-3 loss to the Blue Jays on a soggy Saturday afternoon at Nationals Park.