Web gems deliver Friars, Stauffer win

It took five months, 133 games and a bevy of roster changes — remember Duaner Sanchez? — but the Padres secured their first winning month of the year Monday by winning yet another game that was essentially defined by their defense.

Sure, starting pitcher Tim Stauffer worked past five innings for the first time in a month, allowing one run in 6 2/3 innings en route to a 3-1 Padres win over the Nationals in front of a crowd of 19,867 at PETCO Park.

And it probably didn’t hurt that the Padres scored twice in the first inning before Livan Hernandez, the Nationals starting pitcher, began pitching like it was 2000 all over again, the year he won 17 games for the Giants.

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