{"id":778164,"date":"2026-08-14T03:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/778164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T03:03:29","slug":"cade-cavalli-flirts-with-first-nationals-no-hitter-since-2015-in-shutout-win-over-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/778164\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cavalli Flirts With First Nationals No-Hitter Since 2015 In Shutout Win Over Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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’ 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 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\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<\/a>\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

Reporting by the Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cade Cavalli took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and the Washington Nationals beat the Chicago Cubs 7-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[16141,5,3573,138,24,4245,497,2280,161,733,15065,566,76469,389,19,37,111,4,71],"class_list":["post-778164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-andrew-pinckney","tag-baseball","tag-cade-cavalli","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cj-abrams","tag-clayton-beeter","tag-cubs","tag-dansby-swanson","tag-daylen-lile","tag-dylan-crews","tag-event_recap","tag-kevin-gausman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-michael-busch","tag-michael-conforto","tag-mlb","tag-washington-nationals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117091644421361040","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}