Time for some home cooking

[Just as the Nats return to town, I will be out west for several days, so updates here will be limited.] For a week that started so promising—the walk-off homer by Ryan Zimmerman in the Nationals Park opener, the two wins that followed in Philly—it ended with a thud. John Lannan, called up to pitch Sunday, did a reasonable job: other than Rick Ankiel (RBI double and homer) he kept the Cards in check for 6.2 innings. Problem was, though, that Kyle Lohse and the St. Louis bullpen kept the Nats off the scoreboard entirely. "We've got to go home and play well," Paul Lo Duca said. "We're a better ballclub than we played here, and we know that. Including myself, we need to pick it up." Cards complete the three-game sweep, winning 3-0 Sunday. (Box score) Lannan's outing may have been wasted because of the Nats' anemic bats, but it didn't go unnoticed by the team. "That kid's going to be a good pitcher in this league f...