Alfredo Simon pitched seven innings of one-run ball to defeat the Nationals and improve to 6-2 on Wednesday. Simon came back out after a one-hour rain delay in the fifth. It's the fifth time in nine starts that he's allowed one or no runs. He's even upped his pedestrian strikeout rate of late, with 14 K's over 14 2/3 innings in his last two starts. Still, he should begin to fade sometime soon.