sports.yahoo.com - 5/13/2008
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Odalis Perez used his hitting to help him earn his first win of the season. Making his ninth start without a victory, Perez had three hits and two RBIs and pitched into the seventh inning to lead the Washington Nationals over the New York Mets 10-4 on Monday night. On an unusually chilly night with winds gusting to more than 20 mph, Jesus Flores and Lastings Milledge each had two-run doubles and...
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Nats Kick Mets’ Ass Like ‘Softball Girls’
Mr. Irrelevant —
... By Jamie Mottram | May 13, 2008 christian-l-millz-kearns.jpg Man, the Nats were tailspinning for a minute there, but then they went to Shea and straightened out with a spirited win. So spirited, in fact, that Mets starter Nelson Figueroa had this to say afterward: “[The Nats] were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls. I’m a professional, just like anybody else. I take huge offense to that. If that’s what a last-place team needs to do to fire themselves up, so be it. I think you need to show a little bit more class, a little bit more professionalism. ...
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Perez right antidote to end skid —
Major League Baseball News 5/13/2008
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.
FLIPPING JOHAN AT THE YANKEES —
NY Post: Sports 5/13/2008
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...
