The Washington Nationals played a really good game on Monday night but they came up just short as they lost 2-1 to the Minnesota Twins. One mistake in the sixth inning cost the Nationals the game as Justin Morneau took starting pitcher John Lannan deep for a two run home run.
Lannan took the loss and is now 4-8. He didn’t throw that ball that badly at all as he piched seven innings and allowed five hits and two runs. Charlie Manning pitched a scoreless eighth inning for the Nationals. The pitchers did great, there was just no offense for the Nationals.
Cristian Guzman had a infield single that scored Paul Lo Duca for the only Nationals run in the game. The Nationals only had five hits in the entire game and just couldn’t push across one or two runs late in the game to get a victory.
