08/15/2008 - (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Washington Nationals will try to halt their seven-game losing streak this evening, when they begin a three-game series against the visiting Colorado Rockies at Nationals Park.
Washington's offense has flatlined over its skid, as the team has been shutout in three of the seven losses and totaled just 11 runs. The Nationals were outscored 25-6 in losing all three games of their recent series with the New York Mets.
In Thursday's finale, Pete Orr hit a pinch-hit two-run triple -- his first three-base hit of the season -- for Washington in a 9-3 loss. Emilio Bonifacio also drove in a run in the setback.
Collin Balester (2-5) took the loss for the Nats, yielding five runs on four hits with five walks and three strikeouts over six frames.
Tim Redding is given the task of halting Washington's skid tonight, but the right-hander is just 1-4 with a 7.96 earned run average in his last five starts. However, his lone win in that span came on August 4 in Colorado.
Redding held the Rockies to four runs on six hits with six strikeouts over five innings in that matchup. He then lost to Milwaukee on Saturday after allowing five runs on seven hits over five frames.
The 30-year-old is 8-7 with a 4.61 ERA this year and 1-1 with a 3.91 ERA in five games (4 starts) lifetime versus Colorado.
Washington faces a Rockies club tonight that it took three of four from between August 4-7 and is also just 20-40 on the road this year. Also in the Nationals' favor is the fact they won't be facing Colorado's top pitcher, Aaron Cook, this weekend.
Cook is having his start skipped tonight due to fatigue and a stiff lower back. Jorge De La Rosa was moved to the bullpen when the Rockies recently acquired Livan Hernandez, but will be called upon to start this game.
De La Rosa's last appearance was Tuesday versus Arizona, and he threw one inning of relief while allowing two walks. His last start came on August 5 against Washington, Colorado's lone win in that series. The left-handed De La Rosa got a no-decision after giving up two runs on six hits over seven good innings.
The 27-year-old is 5-6 with a 6.28 ERA in 20 games (15 starts) this year and 0-1 with a 4.26 ERA in two career starts versus the Nats.
Colorado lost seven of 10 on its recent homestand and fell to Arizona, 6-2, on Thursday. Rockies starter Glendon Rusch (5-4) surrendered five runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings, with four strikeouts and two walks.
Matt Holliday homered and Chris Iannetta, filling in for the injured Yorvit Torrealba, went 2-for-3 and knocked in a run for the Rockies, who have dropped four of five. Torrealba was scratched from the lineup due to a small meniscus tear in his left knee.
Colorado's Willy Taveras stole his MLB-leading 53rd base of the season, tying him with Eric Young for the all-time franchise single-season record, which Young set in 1996.
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