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Willingham's two-run homer backs Mock as Nats win

Associated Press

Saturday, August 8, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Nationals have their longest winning streak since 2005, and they're starting to feel just a little bit giddy. After their seventh straight win, Garrett Mock, who won his first game of the season and recorded his first win as a starter, recieved a shaving cream pie in the face during a postgame television interview. Not many teams who have won just 39 games celebrate as freely as the Nationals. Mock pitched six innings, allowing five hits, walking three and striking ...

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