Jayson Werth’s playing days in Major League Baseball might be over, but he may still have the ability to impact gameplay on the field.

The former outfielder was invited to be a spring-training guest coach March 14-15 for the Washington Nationals, a team for which he played the last seven seasons of a 15-year career. Manager Dave Martinez asked Werth to speak to the young team.

What looked like a typical day for Lori Hendrickson, who manages her family’s Meadowbrook Farm in Shelbyville, Ky., was anything but as she discovered around 2:30 in the afternoon of March 10.

Hendrickson spied one of the farm’s broodmares lying down in a paddock on a day that hinted spring is around the corner. She knew the mare, Kona Kai, owned by Surfside Stables and in foal to four-time Grade 1 and Breeders’ Cup winner Oscar Performance, was due to give birth any day so she went to check on her.