"Thirteen days after he was kidnapped in front of his home, Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos made his season debut tonight for the Aragua Tigers in the Venezuelan winter league. Ramos batted cleanup as the designated hitter and went 0 with 5 in the Tigers' 6-4 loss to La Guaira.

Ramos's performance, in his first game since the end of the Nationals season in September, paled compared to the simple fact he took the field. On Nov. 9, Ramos was taken at gunpoint outside his house in Valencia, Venezuela and held for 51 hours before a team of 30 Venezuelan commandoes made a dramatic rescue. "