Senators sold out the Opening Game every year. (Then there were 2,000 people at the second game.) I picked at random 1966. See the box score:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS2/WS2196604110.shtml
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Attendance: 44,468.
Yea so that’s what I mean. You basically have the same number of tickets sold for each of these early games due to Covid.
I don’t think there is a right or wrong here. The Nats would catch flak either way. It’s unfortunate.