On top of that whole baseball thing, it turns out that Nationals legend Ryan Zimmerman is a pretty good interviewer, too.

The first baseman spoke to Dr. Anthony Fauci for about 20 minutes today on the Nationals’ Youtube channel, asking some poignant questions about the city’s response to the pandemic, if fans will get to see the team play this year, and the impact of the virus on pregnancies.

It’s not exactly clear how the interview came about, but Fauci–the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the country’s most trusted voices on the pandemic–is a noted Nationals fan.

Asked if there’s a chance that fans will be able to see the Nats play this summer, Fauci said that he thinks there’s a “pathway” to games being played this season, but it depends. He ticked off several different scenarios where it could happen, including filling only every fifth seat at ballparks or having no fans at all so folks could at least watch games on television.

Then, the good doctor threw a little shade at the 35-year-old baseball player. “It’s the players like yourself that don’t have a lot of years left who would lose another year.”

Zimmerman also asked about the region’s response to the crisis, and Fauci went out of his way to praise Mayor Muriel Bowser. “Our mayor, she did a great job, I think. She was really on top of it,” he said, adding that the city has responded pretty well in terms of social distancing and mitigation, but there is still work to be done.

Echoing previous remarks, Fauci said that “it is more likely than not that we will see [COVID-19] again,” and that a vaccine is the only thing that could put a “nail in the coffin” of this outbreak.

Noting that his wife is eight months pregnant, Zimmerman asked if they should be concerned about the impact on pregnancies and newborns. Fauci responded that, while sample sizes are small, “it does not appear that this virus has a really bad effect on pregnancies.”

They got a little lighthearted, too, with questions about Fauci’s favorite racing president (“Absolutely Teddy Roosevelt”), who he would he pitch in game 7 of the World Series (Max Scherzer), and what he thought of Brad Pitt portraying him on Saturday Night Live: “He’s got my gravelly voice from speaking too much… he got my hand motions right, but he’s got to work on his Brooklyn accent.”