A helicopter circled around the fields at the Nationals training complex for several minutes, and I joked with team president Stan Kasten: "Is that Nats One? Did Bowden get bored with the Segway?"

Then it got a little strange. It seemed as if the helicopter was going to land right on one of the practice fields at the complex. It did land, but just beyond field 2, at a law enforcement facility.

Kasten calmed down the masses. "All is well," he declared.