{"id":857143,"date":"2026-08-13T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857143\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:42:13","slug":"cade-cavalli-takes-a-no-hitter-into-7th-inning-as-washington-nationals-rout-chicago-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/857143\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cavalli takes a no-hitter into 7th inning as Washington Nationals rout Chicago Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Cade Cavalli<\/a> took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and the Washington Nationals<\/a> beat the Chicago Cubs<\/a> 7-0 on Thursday to avoid a three-game sweep.<\/p>\n

Michael Busch<\/a> delivered the Cubs\u2019 lone hit with an opposite-field bloop single to left with two outs in the seventh. The Nationals Park crowd then applauded Cavalli, who was trying to throw Washington\u2019s first no-hitter since Max Scherzer<\/a> did it twice in 2015.<\/p>\n

Cavalli (10-5), who turns 28 on Friday, retired the first 15 batters before walking Dansby Swanson<\/a> to open the sixth. Swanson was quickly erased on Michael Conforto<\/a>\u2019s double-play grounder.<\/p>\n

Cavalli walked Swanson again with two outs in the eighth, but struck out Conforto looking to finish his day. The right-hander struck out 10 while setting career highs in innings (eight) and pitches (103).<\/p>\n

Clayton Beeter<\/a> worked a perfect ninth for Washington.<\/p>\n

The Nationals didn\u2019t muster a baserunner against Kevin Gausman<\/a> (6-11) until Abimelec Ortiz<\/a>\u2019s one-out single in the fourth. Two pitches later, Dylan Crews<\/a> laced an RBI double to left-center.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s first two men in the fifth reached base before Andrew Pinckney\u2019s sacrifice fly. After CJ Abrams<\/a> singled, Ortiz hit a three-run shot to right-center to make it 5-0. Daylen Lile<\/a> added an RBI single later in the inning to end Gausman\u2019s day.<\/p>\n

Ortiz has four homers in 11 games this season and hit .389 (7 for 18) with three homers and seven RBIs during the Nationals\u2019 six-game homestand.<\/p>\n

Gausman allowed six runs in 4 2\/3 innings while striking out seven in his second start since joining the Cubs from Toronto at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Clay Holmes<\/a> (4-5, 2.86 ERA) makes his second start as a Cub as Chicago returns home Friday to begin a three-game series against St. Louis. LHP Andrew Alvarez<\/a> (2-3, 3.76) starts Friday as Washington opens its three-game series at the New York Mets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Patrick Stevens, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Cade Cavalli took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":857144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-857143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/857144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}