Changed Uniforms
For this season, the Nationals have altered their uniforms. The interlocking "DC" has been removed from the star-spangled circle and now sits alone on left sleeve of both the home and away uniforms. It also has been removed from the alternate red jersey and replaced with the "pretzel W" from the team's cap. A new navy alternate jersey with the interlocked "DC" on the left chest in a "stars and stripes" flag pattern, which has also been emulated on the alternate navy cap, will be worn several times in 2009. Finally, in a tribute to the former baseball teams in the District of Columbia, a script writing of the city name has replaced the block lettering, emulating the Senators script of the 1950s and 1960s – though as those teams used "Senators" on both their home and away uniforms, this marks the first time the curled W has actually appeared as part of the word "Washington" on an MLB jersey.
The uniforms gained notoriety when on April 17 in a game against the Florida Marlins, the jerseys of Ryan Zimmerman and Adam Dunn read "Natinals" on the front of the jersey instead of "Nationals" for the first three innings of the game. The Nationals did not catch the error as they only checked the back of the shirts, not the front, but were able to assign to Dunn and Zimmerman the correct jerseys later in the game. The company who manufactured the jerseys, Majestic Athletic, apologized for the error.
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