WASHINGTON (AP) — Blake Butera will never forget the day he accepted the job as the manager of the Washington Nationals. That’s because it was the very same day that his wife, Caroline, gave birth to their first child, daughter Blair.

“It was a long labor, and just the fact that she’s talking to me about this job opportunity while she’s laying in the hospital bed — I was like, ‘Focus on Blair, right?’” Butera said Monday during his introductory news conference at Nationals Park, 2 1/2 weeks after that big day. “It was just a whirlwind.”

Butera, 33, sat beside new president of baseball operations Paul Toboni, 35. They replaced skipper Dave Martinez and president and general manager Mike Rizzo, who are both in their 60s and were fired in July with the Nationals mired in their sixth consecu

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