NATIONALS REPORT

The Next Three

	Time	Opponent	Nationals Pitchers	Opponent Pitchers	TV
Today	10:05	at San Diego	Shawn Hill (2-2, 2.76)	Chris Young (2-2, 4.33)	MASN2
Tomorrow	10:05	at San Diego	Matt Chico (2-2, 5.70)	Clay Hensley (1-3, 7.86)	MASN
Friday	2:20	at Chicago Cubs	Jason Bergmann (0-2, 2.79)	Carlos Zambrano (2-2, 5.77)	MASN

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By the Numbers

8-17

Nationals' record in April last year, when they finished 71-91, and this year entering last night's game

Personnel Dept.

IF D'Angelo Jimenez was the victim of Kory Casto's promotion, but Jimenez had not cleared waivers and accepted an assignment to Class AAA Columbus as of yesterday evening. Jimenez went hitless in 12 pinch-hit at-bats. OF Michael Restovich, 0 for his last 15, remained because of his power potential. . . . C Brian Schneider was back after missing two starts with flulike symptoms.

Quotable

"Just waking up every morning knowing you're going to be in there gives you that mental edge that you don't have to really wonder: '[Am] I'm going to be playing here, playing there? When am I going to get in a game? Am I going to pinch-hit?' I'm going to be in the lineup."

OF Ryan Church, on the difference

between this year and last