The Washington Nationals beat up on the New York Mets on Monday night by the score of 10-4.  The Nationals scored in every inning except for three as they kept pressure on the Mets pitchers the entire night.

Odalis Perez threw 6 1/3 innings to pick up his first win and improve his record to 1-3 on the season.  Perez did allow eleven hits and four runs including two home runs but this time he got some run support on the mound.

Chris Schroder and Saul Rivera both tossed 1 1/3 innings in the game as they pitched in relief and they did not give up a run.

Lastings Milledge, Jesus Flores, Perez all had two rbi each in the game.  Felipe Perez, Nick Johnson, and Rob Mackowiak had one rbi each in the game.  Now that is what I call production up and down the lineup.  You gotta love seeing that kind of production from that many players.

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The Washington Nationals just can’t catch a break right now as they dropped their fifth straight game after starting the season 3-0.  The Nationals had their chances with the bases loaded a couple of times, but couldn’t push across any runs when they needed to against the Florida Marlins as the Marlins won 10-7.

Starting pitcher Tim Redding picked up the loss.  Redding lasted four innings while giving up seven hits and seven runs.  Only one of the runs was earned however.  Errors really hurt Redding and the Nationals on Monday night.

Chris Schroder, Luis Ayala, and Jon Rauch also all allowed runs to cross the plate for the Marlins.

Christian Guzman and Lastings Milledge each had three RBI’s for that Nationals and Felipe Lopez contributed with one RBI.  You would think you would win the ballgame by scoring seven runs, but not when your pitching and defense sucks…

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The Washington Nationals have made another round of cuts as they trim down their spring training roster as it gets closer to opening day.

Chris Schroder and John Lannan were optioned to Triple-A Columbus.

Ryan Langerhans and Pete Orr were sent to the teams minor league camp.

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