The Washington Nationals got back in the win column with win on Wednesday after a loss on Tuesday. Washington fell on Tuesday 2-0 but won an impressive game on Wednesday, 5-0 over the Diamondbacks. The Nationals are now 35-57 this season.
On Tuesday the Nationals got a short start out of Odalis Perez who was ejected in the third inning for arguing over a balk. Perez, Shell, Rivera, and Hanrahan each went between 2 and 2.2 innings and gave up no earned runs. Perez and Rivera each gave up an unearned run. The Nats obviously didn’t get much going on offense as they put together only six hits. Austin Kearns and Dmitri Young each had two hits for Washington.
On Wednesday, John Lannan got the start for the Nats and continued to pitch very well to pick up the win. Lannan threw six innings and gave up only two hits while shutting out the D’Backs. Four relievers threw the final three innings to finish off the shut out. The big blow on offense came from Jesus Flores who hit a three run homer in the sixth inning to put some distance between the two teams.
Arizona and the Nationals will finish their three game series on Thursday night. Jason Bergmann is set to start for the Nationals. Game time is 7:10pm.