John Lannan pitches nine shutout innings against the New York Mets, only allowing seven hits. Lannan threw 106 pitches in which 80 of them were strikes. Oliver Perez pitches six innings, giving up four hits, and four runs. Brian Stokes and Bobby Parnell pitched no-hit innings.

Here’s the box score

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9		R	H	E
NY Mets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	7	0
Washington	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	X		4	4	0

Since the Mets did not score, I’ll discuss how the Nationals scored their runs

The scoring innings
Bottom 4th

Ryan Zimmerman walked.
Adam Dunn singles and Zimmerman goes to third.
Josh Willingham pops out.
Alberto Gonzalez hits a sac fly to score Ryan Zimmerman for the first run, Dunn to third.
Wil Nieves singles to bring home Adam Dunn. Alberto Gonzalez goes to second base.
John Lannan grounds out.

Bottom 5th

Nyjer Morgan is hit by pitch.
Cristian Guzman flies out.
Ryan Zimmerman walks, Morgan stole 2nd base while Zimmerman was batting.
Adam Dunn singles, scores Morgan, Zimmerman to third.
Josh Willingham sac flies to score Zimmerman.
Austin Kearns grounds into a force out.

The Mets had seven hits, one each by Angel Pagan, Luis Castillo, David Wright, Daniel Murphy, Oliver Perez, and two hits by Jeff Francoeur, (the best hitter of the game that is)
Mets players grounded into two double plays, and left five on base.

The Nationals had four hits, one by Ryan Zimmerman, one by Wil Nieves, and two by Adam Dunn. Nationals leave six men on base, but they won by four runs.

There were no home runs hit in the game.

Oliver Perez pitched good, despite allowing four runs, he just didn’t have any run support at all, because John Lannan was great at handling pressure situations and stranding baserunners.

At the end of the day, the Mets are 44-49, and the Nationals are 27-66, even though they played better than their record indicates.

Here are some other scores that have reached their ends.
Braves beat Giants 8-1, in which Brian McCann homered.
Brian McCann drove in four runs, Chipper Jones, Garret Anderson, Yunel Escobar, and Martin Prado each drive in one run, while Juan Uribe hits to bring home Matt Downs for the Giants.

Martin Prado had three hits while Brian McCann and Yunel Escobar each had two hits for the Braves.

Randy Winn had two hits for the Giants also.  

The Indians beat the Blue Jays 2-1, and Scott Rolen homered for the Jays. Victor Martinez drives in two runs.

I hope the summer is turning out great for everyone.