PHILADELPHIA -- Cliff Lee is doing his best to stay in Philadelphia and turn the Phillies into a contender. Lee struck out nine in eight impressive innings, Michael Young tied a career high with three doubles and the Phillies beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 Tuesday night. Lee (9-2) allowed two runs and five hits to win his fifth straight decision. The three-time All-Star lefty lowered his ERA to 2.53 and helped the Phillies move into a second-place tie with the defending NL East champion Nationals. With the trade deadline approaching, Lee is constantly mentioned as one of the best pitchers available if the Phillies decide to unload salary. Lee already has been traded twice in July during his career and once after the season by the Phillies. "I want to win. I signed to win here," Lee said, reiterating a comment he made last week in Minnesota. "If that was misconstrued that I want to play someplace else, thats not the case. I want to play here." Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. has said hes not looking to trade Lee and rather he wants to add players to help the team make a post-season run. "If we play fundamental baseball and everyone plays up to their capabilities, we can beat anybody," Lee said. Jayson Werth and Jeff Kobernus hit solo homers for Washington. Ross Detwiler (2-5) took the loss in a game that started one hour, 10 minutes late because of rain. He allowed four runs and seven hits in six innings. "Detwiler was matching Lee pitch for pitch until the sixth," Nationals manager Davey Johnson said. "He was throwing the ball good." The Phillies have won two in a row over the Nationals after returning from a 3-7 road trip that left them four games under .500. Jonathan Papelbon worked the ninth for his 14th save a night after blowing his first of the season and then getting the win. It was 1-all going into the bottom of the sixth before Ben Revere started it with a bunt single. Young then lined an RBI double down the right-field line to give the Phillies the lead. Jimmy Rollins followed with a single and Ryan Howard was hit by pitch to load the bases. Detwiler struck out Domonic Brown and Delmon Young before Kevin Frandsen hit a two-run single to make it 4-1. "You come up with two outs and the bases loaded, you have to get in a good count," Frandsen said. "I got it to 2-0 and got a pitch to hit." Kobernus connected as a pinch-hitter in the eighth for his first career homer to cut it to 4-2. Werth lined a shot out to left to give the Nationals a 1-0 lead in the fourth. A Nationals fan secured the ball in the stands and wouldnt throw it back on the field as Phillies fans have been doing since Citizens Bank Park opened in 2004. The fan drew some boos that werent as loud as the ones Werth receives whenever the Nats visit. Werth helped the Phillies win the 2008 World Series and hit 36 homers for them when they won the NL pennant in 09, but he left for a $126 million, seven-year deal after the 2011 season. Michael Young hit a double to start the bottom of the fourth, advanced on Rollins sacrifice and scored on Howards sacrifice fly to tie it at 1. "Looks like his bat is a little quicker," manager Charlie Manuel said of Young. "He expects a lot out of himself and he wants to do more. Hes starting to relax." Lee nearly gave himself a lead in the fifth on a two-out single, but centre fielder Denard Span threw out Delmon Young trying to score. "I love playing behind Cliff," Michael Young said. "He loves to have the ball in his hands, he loves to compete and he can hit." NOTES: Phillies C Carlos Ruiz was activated from the disabled list after missing four weeks with a hamstring injury. He went 1 for 3. ... RHP Carlos Zambrano tossed seven scoreless innings, striking out six and allowing five hits for Triple-A Lehigh Valley. Zambrano could make his next start for the Phillies. ... Howards sacrifice fly gave him 957 career RBIs, tying him with Sam Thompson for fifth on the Phillies all-time list. ... Kobernus homer was Washingtons third by a pinch-hitter. ... Gio Gonzalez (3-3, 3.40) goes for the Nationals against Kyle Kendrick (6-4, 3.76) on Wednesday night. New Balance Shoes On Sale .B. - Sebastien Auger made 44 saves as the Saint John Sea Dogs edged the visiting Acadie-Bathurst Titan 2-1 on Saturday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action. Cheap New Balance Shoes . 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LONDON -- Novak Djokovic edged a bit closer to the year-end No. 1 ranking.The second-ranked Serb beat Milos Raonic 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5) Tuesday to qualify for the semifinals of the ATP finals and improve his record against the Canadian to 8-0.Djokovic is 2-0 at the season-ending tournament, and will retake the top ranking from Andy Murray if he does better this week. Murray is 1-0 so far, and plays his second match on Wednesday against Kei Nishikori.Djokovic never looked at ease in his second match at the O2 Arena, but he was able to hang on through two tough tiebreakers to earn the victory.It really could have gone either way, said Djokovic, who completed a career Grand Slam by winning the French Open this year. I was down very early in both tiebreaks tonight. But I just managed to stay committed and put pressure on his second serves.To get to the tiebreakers, Djokovic saved three break points in the first set. He then managed to go up a break twice in the second set, but Raonic responded each time.Raonic, who reached the Wimbledon final this year, took the lead in both tiebreakers as Djokovic struggled for consistency, but he couldnt hold on.I gave myself some chances there. He played well in most of those chances, said Raonic, who can still advance to the semifinals by beating Dominic Thiem on Thursday. Sometimes us tennis players, we struggle to forget. But thats the number one thing Ive got to do right now.Djokovic earned only 11 winners in the match, compared to Raonics 42, but it was stilll enough to advance and keep him on track to win a record-tying sixth title at the year-end championship.ddddddddddddll in all, two tiebreaks against a big server is a great win and great confidence boost, Djokovic said.In the early match, Thiem went through another second-set letdown before putting things right to give himself a chance to advance.The eighth-seeded Austrian, who is making his debut at the season-ending tournament, held on to beat Gael Monfils 6-3, 1-6, 6-4, making him 1-1 in the round robin.In his opening match on Sunday, Thiem lost to Djokovic after winning the first set. In the second set of that match, he was blanked 6-0.I tried to avoid the mistake I did in the first match, to drop a little bit. Didnt really happen that good, Thiem said. But I was trying to stay tough in the third set.He got some help this time, though.Although Monfils improved in the second set, winning all three of his break points to force a decider, his service game never really got going. In the final game of the match, the Frenchman gave it away with three of his five double-faults.It was a tough one, said Monfils, who is still recovering from a rib injury that forced him out of the Paris Masters at the end of last month. I think I didnt play a great match, but I gave everything I had.Because of his injury, Monfils said he may pull out of his final match against Djokovic. ' ' '