The Washington Nationals would like a restart. The Atlanta Braves just want to keep the winning pace they've set during the first week of the season.
Chipper Jones drove in two runs, including a tie-breaking single, and the Braves beat Washington 8-5 on Sunday to hand the Nationals their sixth straight loss to start the season.
Washington is the only winless team in the majors and has the franchise's most consecutive losses to open a season since the 1998 Montreal Expos were 0-7.
"We have to forget this ever happened," left-hander Scott Olsen said.
The pressure is already building for the Nationals, who lost three straight at Florida to open the season and will play their home opener against Philadelphia on Monday.
"Right now we're in a situation where we have to play almost perfect baseball," Manager Manny Acta said.
Jair Jurrjens (2-0) gave up five hits and five walks in five 1-3 innings but allowed only four runs, three earned, to help the Braves sweep the three-game series and improve to 5-1.
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The Braves scored their first five runs on two-out rallies in the fourth and fifth to beat Olsen (0-2), who gave up six hits and five runs in five innings.
Rafael Soriano pitched a perfect ninth for his first save.
The Nationals scored three runs with two outs in the fifth. Dukes drove in Josh Bard and Cristian Guzman with a double to the wall in center field. Dukes scored when Prado, making his first start of the season at first base, mishandled Ryan Zimmerman's grounder for an error.
Jurrjens walked Dunn and Austin Kearns to load the bases before striking out Willingham. Atlanta regained the lead by scoring two runs in the fifth on two-out singles by Jones and McCann.
Dukes' run-scoring single in the sixth cut the lead to 5-4, but the Braves scored two runs in the seventh off reliever Steven Shell. Infante doubled and scored on Yunel Escobar's double to right. Jones drove in Escobar with a single to left.
Zimmerman and Atlanta's Casey Kotchman traded run-scoring singles in the eighth.
