Tim Redding and the Washington Nationals beat up on Greg Maddux and the Los Angeles Dodgers Wednesday night. It was the second night in a row that the Nationals beat the Dodgers and now they will be going for the sweep on Thursday. The 5-4 victory over the Dodgers improved the Nationals record to 48-85 on the season.

Redding was good as he pitched six innings. He allowed eight hits and three runs in the game while improving to 9-8 on the year. All three runs that Redding gave up were solo home runs. He did get lucky that they were all solo shots that is for sure. Saul Rivera gave up one run and then Joel Hanrahan pitched 1 1/3 innings to get his sixth save of the season.

Ryan Zimmerman had a solo home run for the Nationals as he was the only Nats player to go deep in the game. Lastings Milledge, Ronnie Belliard, and Jesus Flores all added rbi’s as well in the game for the Nationals.

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It was a bad night for the Washington Nationals as they were shut out by the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies beat the Nationals for the second straight night and this time it was by the score of 4-0. Both teams had nine hits in the game, but the Phillies were the team to score some runs while the Nationals couldn’t push across a run.

Brett Myers tossed a complete game against the Nats as they struckout nine times and left 16 runners on base. Talk about not coming up with a big hit when the team really needs one when there were runners on base.

Collin Balester was charged with the loss after he tossed six innings and gave up seven hits and four runs. Balester did give up one home run in the game while striking out four. Marco Estrada threw the final two innings of the game and allowed two hits but zero runs.

The Nationals will try to avoid the three game sweep as they take on the Phillies Thursday.

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The Washington Nationals will just want to forget about the game that they played on Thursday night. The New York Mets defeated the Nationals 9-3 as they blew the game wide open in he top of the ninth inning with four big runs. The Nationals had no answer in the bottom of the inning as four runs is just too much for this team to come back from in the the final inning.

Collin Balester was charged with four hits and five runs in six innings of action to take the loss. Balester served up two home runs while walking five batters. Walking that many batters and giving up home runs is never a good combination.  Joel Hanrahan was the pitcher that allowed four runs to score in the top of the ninth inning.

All three of the Nationals runs came in the seventh inning when Pete Orr had a two run triple and then he scored on a infield bunt single by Emilio Bonifacio. Just not enough offense to keep up with the Mets.

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