Sunday: WASHINGTON 6 Florida 4 (ESPN Boxscore)
Saturday: WASHINGTON 7 Florida 3 (ESPN Boxscore)
Friday: WASHINGTON 6 Florida 0 (ESPN Boxscore)

Things are looking up. After having another week long losing streak, the Nats came home and took care of business this weekend, taking the Marlins out in a three-game series (The Post). Good things happen when you score six runs or more most of the time. Given that the Nats pitching has been a strong point of late (it feels weird saying that, doesn’t it?) the bats waking up would mean some curly W’s.

Yesterday, Jason Simontacchi got his first win since 2003 (The Wash. Times), going 5 1/3 innings. Cristian Guzman got his first RBI since 2005 too. Six players used pink bats (nationals.com):

Ryan Church, Robert Fick, Jesus Flores, Cristian Guzman, Austin Kearns and Ryan Zimmerman used the bats and went a combined 7-for-22 (.318) with four RBIs. Flores and Guzman drove in two runs apiece to help the Nationals win, 6-4.

With Mitchell Page out as hitting coach for the foreseeable future (if not forever), Lenny Harris, a former Red (imagine that), is filling in as hitting coach (The Wash. Times). Page is apparently having trouble with the left side of his body (nationals.com), not alcoholism.

Saturday night’s game was delayed by a couple of rain delays. Only a few fans were left to see Zimmerman hit a walkoff grand slam in the ninth (The Post). That is at least three grand slams in his career so far and his second against the Marlins this season.

Chad Cordero is scheduled to return to the Nats for tonight’s game (The Post). His grandmother passed away last week and he has been on bereavement leave.