Game Preview: Nationals vs Mets

ON DECK: NATIONALS AT METS
The best chance the Nationals have of slowing down Carlos Beltran tonight may be the rain that is expected to pour down on New York today, postponing the game with the Mets (7:10, SNY, WFAN). Beltran had been a major disappointment until he tore...

Perez right antidote to end skid
Entering Monday's action, Washington had a .237 batting average, which ranked last in the National League. But the bats came to life, as the Nationals gave Odalis Perez his first victory of season in a 10-4 pounding of the Mets at Shea Stadium.

Nationals 10, Mets 4: Struggling for a Win, Perez’s Bat Comes Through for Nationals
Making his ninth start without a victory, Odalis Perez had three hits and two R.B.I.s and pitched into the seventh inning to lead the Nationals past the Mets. >

Nationals get under Figueroa's skin in Mets loss
Nelson Figueroa was frustrated by his own pitching, that's for sure. But that doesn't fully explain the vitriol the Mets' starting pitcher unleashed on the Washington Nationals last night after a 10-4 loss at Shea Stadium.

FLIPPING JOHAN AT THE YANKEES
IF pitching Johan Santana on normal rest Thursday afternoon against the much-traveled TBD of the Nationals would put a win in the books, then sign up the person who signs the Mets' lineup card. "Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with him...