⚾️On September 29, 2004 Major League Baseball announces Washington, D.C. will become the Montreal Expos' new home in time for the 2005 season. The nation's capital, chosen over finalists including Las Vegas and Northern Virginia, will have baseball for the first time in 33 years since the expansion Senators left in 1971 to become the Texas Rangers. Hours after the MLB's announcement of the franchise's impending shift to Washington, D.C., the Expos played their final game in Montreal, a 9-1 loss