Ok rageoholic. That is a crapass team that the Nats would never have lost to with a major league rotation. Look at the numbers, the rotation, and the roster. Even allowing for him to be top 5 in the game, they are still the 2008 Nats (Zim).
I'd put more of the blame on the lineup than the starting pitchers. It defies logic why you'd start Willie Harris and Adam Kennedy in the lineup together on Friday and Willie Harris, Adam Kennedy AND Wil Nieves on Saturday.
With Martin and Atilano starting, Riggleman has to know we need as many runs as possible. Well, a good manager knows that. Willie Harris and Adam Kennedy are not going to produce a lot of runs. Assuming you go with Riggleman's rationale for playing Harris and Kennedy, ie give them more playing time to get them sharp, when they started the game on Friday, they weren't sharp!
When you score 2 runs and 1 run, as I've posted before, the starting pitcher, for the most part, is just controlling the size of the loss. It's good when it happens but you can't really EXPECT your rotation to give up one and zero runs in successive games.