Sweet!!!

Pop open the champagne bottles. Light the cigars. The Washington Nationals have their first win. Brad Wilkerson hit for the cycle for the second time in his career and Jose Guillen hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the eighth inning, leading the Nationals to a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillieson Wednesday night. It was Washington's second game since moving during the offseason after 36 years as the Montreal Expos.

Wilkerson was 4-for-4 with a walk and two RBIs, completing his cycle with a ground-rule double in the eighth against Aaron Fultz. Wilkerson homered off Bret Myers in the third, singled off Myers in the fifth and tripled in the seventh. Wilkerson's first cycle was against Pittsburgh on June 24, 2003.

Manager Fank Robinson said "To win the first is sweet". Vinny Castilla was 4-for-5 with two doubles and one RBI for Washington, which hadn't celebrated a victory by a major league team since the expansion Senators left for Texas following the 1971 season. The Nationals play their home opener at RFK Stadium on April 14 against Arizona.