The Washington Nationals gave up seven runs in the 5th inning to the Florida Marlins and then went on to lose the game by the score of 10-4.  Nationals pitchers couldn’t control Mike Jacobs who hit two homeruns and accounted for five of the Nationals ten runs.

Jason Bergmann picked up the loss which was his first of the season.  Bergmann allowed nine hits, seven earned runs, and two homeruns.  A very terrible outing by Bergmann who was hoping to pitch a lot better.  Joel Hanrahan followed Bergmann and didn’t fare to well either.  Hanrahan gave up three earned runs in only two innings of action.

Paul LoDuca led the Nationals with two RBI’s while Christian Guzman accounted for one RBI.

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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 tried, but they couldn’t come back from a 5-1 deficit.  A three run homerun by Christian Guzman made it 5-4 in the sevent inning but that was all the Nationals could do against the Cardinals as they went onto lose 5-4.

Had starting pitcher Odalis Perez performed better in the middle innings, I think the Nationals would have been able to get a victory.  I think Perez will come back during his next outing and have a good game though.

The Nationals record stands at 3-2 on the season and they will try to make that 4-2 when they play the Cardinals again on Saturday.

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The Washington Nationals broke in the new ballpark with an exciting win as Ryan Zimmerman hit a walkoff homerun to give the Nationals the 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves.

Nick Johnson got the team off to a good start in the first inning as he doubled in Christian Guzman.  Austin Kearns then singled to right field that scored Johnson.  Those were the only two runs the Nationals got until Zimmerman ended the game with two outs in the ninth inning.

Jon Rauch picked up the win for the Nationals.  Odalis Perez was the starting pitcher and lasted five innings, giving up four hits and one earned run.  He did serve up a gopher ball to Chipper Jones, that was pretty much his only mistake of the ballgame.

The Nationals will now take on the Philadelphia Phillies as they try to move to 2-0 on the 2008 season.