Around The NL EAST April 10th

The Braves blew out the Washington Nationals 8 to nothing last night and improved to a major league best 8 and 1.

Tim Hudson took the mound for the Braves last night and showed more good signs that this will be a break out year for him.
Hudson pitched 7 scoreless innings giving up just 3 hits and struck out 7. Hudson's ERA for the season 0.67.

Andruw Jones finally hit his first homerun of the year coming in the 4th inning off of Washington pitcher Chico.

Jeff Francoeur had a huge night at the plate going 2 for 5 with a homerun and 5 RBI

~Lets remember people this is the Washington Nationals who will lose more then 100 games this season shouldn't be a surprise Atlanta is having their way with them.

The Marlins had a terrific game with the Brewers in a game that went to extra innings and then got rained out. There wasn't much offense this game as the Marlins only had 6 hits in 10 innings.

Former Met Mike Jacobs seems to be having a turn around season and last night was 1 for 4 with an RBI. He's now hitting .367 on the season.

Former Met Jorge Julio blew another save for the Marlins pitching in the 9th inning gave up 2 walks a hit which led to an Earned Run and a blow save.

~It now seems that Matt Lindstrom (former Met) or Henry Owens (former Met) could take over the closer role for Florida.

In news around the NL EAST
from rotoworld.com
"Mike Hampton had successful surgery to fix the torn flexor tendon in his elbow on Tuesday.

Hampton will miss the remainder of the season, but should be fully recovered in time for the 2008 season."

Thats a big blow to the Braves. That rotation now features a pitcher in Mark Redman who didn't get a contract to mid spring and Kyle Davies who has good stuff but had what a 15 ERA last year?

The Mets, and Phillies were both off yesterday (duh they are playing each other) and will be playing today as Oliver Perez takes the mound against over paid Adam Eaton.

Standings
W L GB

Atlanta	6	1	.857	-
New York Florida	5	2	.714	1.0
Philadelphia	1	6	.143	5.0
Washington	1	7	.125	5.5