The Nats again blew and late inning lead as the Philles defeated the Nats 8-6. The Nats made an huge plunder in the 8th inning as Anderson Hernandez missed a perfectly thrown ball by Jesus Colome at 1st base to lead to three important runs by the Phillies. Starter Jordan Zimmermann again had a tough outing giving up 5 runs in five innings. Reliever Ron Villone put together two solid innings of relief by giving up no runs. Julian Tavarez who took the lost had a tough outing by not retiring either batter he faced and was charged with two runs. Jesus Colome had a blown save aided by the Hernandez err in judgement while giving up a run in his 1/3 inning of work. Beimel pitched 1 and 2/3 innings of relief giving up no runs.
The Nats offense was at it again by getting nine hits and scoring six runs. The Nats' offense was lead by Cristen Guzman's three hits and leads the NL in batting. Nick Johnson and Anderson Hernandez also had a good day with the bat as both got two hits apiece. Adam Dunn lead the team in RBI with two raising his season total to 30.
Yesterday's box score is the following:
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_05_17_phimlb_wasmlb_1
The Nats drop to 11-25 and are still in the cellar of the NL East.
The Nats take on the Pirates at home as Ross Detwiler takes on the Pirates' Ross Ohlendorf. The game starts at 7:05pm.
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