The Washington Nationals finished up a dissapointing three game series with the Florida Marlins with a 4-2 loss on Wednesday afternoon.  The Nationals had a 2-0 lead heading into the bottom of the sixth innint but the Marlins then scored four runs over the next three innings to pull away for the victory.  With the loss, the Nationals lost two our of three games to the Marlins.

Odalis Perez pitched 6 2/3 innings and gave up five hits and two runs.  Perez didn’t pitch to badly and ended up getting a no decision in the game.  Charlie Manning was charged with one run after he gave up two hits without recording an out and took the loss to fall to 0-2 on the season.  Saul Rivera was also charged with one run in the eighth inning.  Bad job by the bullpen at the end of the game.

Paul Lo Duca had both rbi’s for the Nationals as he singled in two runs in the second inning to get the Nationals on the scoreboard.  The bad news was that those were the only two runs in the game for the Nats.

The Nationals will now start a four game series with the Cincinnati Reds on Friday.

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The Washington Nationals had a one run lead in th eighth inning but two runs in the eighth inning by the Los Angeles Angels put them in the lead and they held on for the 3-2 victory.  It was a dissapointing loss for the Nationals who had one of major league baseball’s teams on the the ropes.  Could have been a big win for the Nats, but that is all we can say is “could have”.

Jason Bergmann got a no decision in the game after pitching the first seven innings of the game.  Bergmann gave up six hits and one run while striking out six batters.  It was a good quality starts for Bergmann, the bullpen just didn’t hold onto the lead.

Saul Rivera pitched the eighth inning and gave up both runs to the Angels.  Rivera ended up taking the loss and is now 3-4.  The Angels first run in the eighth inning came on a error by Felipe Lopez, and then they scored their second run on a single to right center field.

Willie Harris hit his fourth home run of the season in the second inning to score the Nationals first run in the game.  The second run of the game didn’t come until the seventh inning when Paul Lo Duca lined a pitch back to John Lackey who caught it but then made a bad throw that allowed Harris to score.

The Nationals will now hope to even up the series at 1-1 on Tuesday night.  I really don’t like their chances but we will see what happens.

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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.

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