Fans are shut out of Nationals Park, but that could change Jesse Dougherty, The Washington Post March 2, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Fans have attended games at spring training this year.Washington Post photo by Toni L. Sandys WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The District of Columbia has denied for now the Washington Nationals' request to host fans at a limited capacity in Nationals Park when the season begins in April, doing so in a letter Tuesday while promising to revisit the question in about two weeks. That means the final answer on in-person attendance is pending. The team submitted a proposal Feb. 12 to have fans at Nationals Park starting next month. The proposal was in line with what other MLB teams have had approved by local or state officials, according to a person with knowledge of the process who was not authorized to speak publicly about it. The proposal, that person said, asks to have the maximum number of fans who could sit in small pods that would be spaced six feet apart in all directions.