WASHINGTON 5 Atlanta 1 (ESPN Boxscore)

The Nats won (The Post) again (The Wash. Times). Really. Thomas Boswell of The Post is excited!

LHP Matt Chico got his first MLB win, despite five walks and no strikeouts in his five innings of work. It wasn’t pretty watching him pitch, but officially, he was good. I wouldn’t say he was “the man” though, not based on that performance. Besides, the man was actually Charlie Buckett’s grandfather.

The Nats scored three runs in the third with two outs. Ryan Zimmerman, who has been struggling mightily, hit an opposite field single to knock in the first run. Dimitri Young, wearing #42 (The Post) in honor of Jackie Robinson (The Wash. Times), knocked two more in with a double to the wall. That would be more scoring than the Nats ultimately needed, though they’d get two more in the eighth.

A Times-Dispatch columnist notes Young’s “rebirth.”

I can’t imagine sitting through that game last night in this weather.
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By the way, the Nats rise to fourth place means the Phillies are in last place. This pleases me, especially going into a short series with them. The Ombudsman and I are renewing our annual wager, more details to come.