PHILADELPHIA -- A.J. Ellis, the Philadelphia Phillies recently acquired catcher, has made an immediate impact with his new team.The same cannot be said of Jake Thompson, the Phillies rookie right-hander.Thompson (1-3, 9.78) will be looking to get untracked Monday, when the Phillies open a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. Tanner Roark (13-7, 2.99) gets the start for the National League East leaders.Thompson, called up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley in early August, has not worked more than five innings, nor allowed fewer than three runs, in any of his four major league starts to date. His last time out he lost on the road to the Chicago White Sox, surrendering seven runs on eight hits in five innings while striking out two and walking four.In 19 1/3 innings to date, he has walked 13 while allowing 22 hits, a far cry from the form he showed at Lehigh Valley, where he gave up 105 hits and walked just 37 in 129 2/3 innings.Im not used to this, Thompson said after the loss to White Sox, according to Major League Baseballs official web site. The issue is pretty evident. Im not throwing strikes, and when I am throwing strikes, theyre not good strikes. Its coming back to the drawing board and figuring it out a little bit.Thompson has never faced Washington.Ellis, acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for fellow catcher Carlos Ruiz last Thursday, belted a tie-breaking two-run double in the seventh inning of his first game with Philadelphia, a 5-1 road victory over the New York Mets on Sunday.It felt good regardless of whats happened in the last four days, Ellis said, according to MLB.com. It feels good to drive in runs, feels good to help put your team ahead and help contribute to a team win.Roark, a model of consistency most of the season for the Nationals, is winless in his last two starts. His last time out he absorbed a 10-8 loss to Baltimore, going five innings and allowing five runs (four earned) on seven hits while striking out four and walking three.It was Roarks shortest outing in his last six starts, and the most runs he has allowed in the same span. All five of those runs came in the first two innings, when he threw 62 pitches and hit three batters.I couldnt locate; it was as simple as that, Roark said, according to MLB.com. I was trying to go inside to get them off the plate and make them feel uncomfortable. Thats how I pitch. Obviously not my best outing. What I love is that we came back and came pretty darn close to tying it up or possibly winning it.Roark is 4-5 with a 4.35 ERA in 10 career games against the Phillies, eight of them starts.The Nationals comeback attempt also fell short Sunday, in a 5-3 loss to Colorado. They spotted the Rockies a 4-1 lead after three innings, but could muster only three solo homers, by Trae Turner, Wilson Ramos and Bryce Harper.Harpers homer, his 23rd of the season, was a leadoff shot off reliever Boone Logan in the ninth inning. Adam Ottavino, Logans successor, then retired Anthony Rendon, Ramos and Ryan Zimmerman, sending Washington to its sixth loss in eight games. 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In that the team showed themselves to be teenagers and not adults, also because as soon as they equalized we again started to press, with the same attitude again that we should have also had at 1-0 up.Lorenzo Insigne fired the hosts in front three minutes from the break, cutting inside and curling in under the crossbar. The ball went in with the aid of a slight deflection off former Napoli defender Paolo Cannavaro -- who had been given a warm welcome by the Partenopei fans at the start of the match.It was Insignes third goal in two matches.Napoli has struggled to score goals with Arkadiusz Milik sidelined until at least February after tearing a cruciate ligament in his left knee in October.We miss him, but I think almost every team in the league would miss a player like him, Sarri said.Milik was signed to replace Gonzalo Higuain, who transferred to Juventus for an Italian-record 90 million euros ($100 million) after breaking a 66-year-old Serie A record with 36 goals for Napoli last season.Napoli again failed to close out the match, wasting several chances to do so, and paid the price when substitute Gregoire Defrel powerfully volleyed home Marcello Gazzolas cross to equalize eight minutes from time.The home side almost snatched a late win but Jose Callejon hit the right post in stoppages.Sassuolo had also hit the woodwork, with Simone Missirolis header coming off the crossbar shortly after the hour.Napoli remained seventh, four points behind second-placed Roma and AC Milan, and eight points behind league leader Juventus.Sassuolo, which became the first side to field an all-Italian starting 11, stayed 16th.----INTER MILAN 4, FIORENTINA 2Inter Milan almost let another commanding lead slip but held on for a first victory under new coach Stefano Pioli, piling more pressure onto Fiorentina counterpart Paulo Sousa.ddddddddddddnter scored three goals in the opening 19 minutes.We have shown that we can do important things, Pioli said. When we slow down we get in difficulty ... I saw a lot of positive things, and so many other things that we need to work on.I think the squad has the qualities to play a certain type of football, we didnt manage the ball well in the second half. We want to control matches. The idea is to win them. Now we have to immediately think about the next match against Napoli.Inter took the lead with less than three minutes on the clock after Fiorentina defender Gonzalo Rodriguez attempted to clear Cristian Ansaldis cross but it fell to Marcelo Brozovic, who smashed it into the back of the net.Fiorentina goalkeeper Ciprian Tatarusanu could only parry Ivan Perisics low cross six minutes later and Antonio Candreva slotted in the rebound from six yards.Mauro Icardi scored a magnificent third, turning Gonzalo and dribbling past Davide Astori before firing past Tatarusanu.Inter had let a two-goal lead slip in Thursdays 3-2 defeat to Hapoel Beer-Sheva and there were fears of a similar collapse when Nikola Kalinic got in front of Danilo DAmbrosio to reduce the deficit.However, any hopes Fiorentina had of pulling off an astonishing comeback diminished when Gonzalo was controversially sent off for barging over Icardi.Despite the numerical disadvantage, Fiorentina got back into the match on the hour as Josip Ilicic finished off a counterattack.Icardi sealed matters in stoppage time, with his 12th goal of the season, moving him level with Roma forward Edin Dzeko at the top of the goalscoring charts.Inter moved into eighth place, a point above Fiorentina.Last week Fiorentina fans hung banners on the gates of the stadium calling for Sousa to resign. 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