4th of July when you're going to have a huge crowd really the day you want to do that?
Seriously. You'll have plenty of first timers at the game today. I think he has to be hurt or sick.
One thing I liked about Riggs is he never gave Dunn/Zimmerman days off at home since those are the guys the fans came to see. Not often will managers make decisions totally based on giving back to the fans, so I always appreciated that. I would have been pretty bummed if at my first Nats game I saw a bench player instead the biggest star on the team.