{"id":44045,"date":"2026-08-14T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44045"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:37:37","slug":"cavallis-no-hit-bid-ends-after-6-2-3-innings-against-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=44045","title":{"rendered":"Cavalli\u2019s no-hit bid ends after 6 2\/3 innings against Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/13\/Cubs_Nationals_Baseball_88_13_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Cade Cavalli approached Washington Nationals teammate Jake Irvin with a first-time request Tuesday night: Cavalli wanted Irvin\u2019s notes for getting ready to face the Chicago Cubs.<\/p>\n<p>Even then, Cavalli offered a caveat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told him, \u2018If I throw a no-hitter, I\u2019m going to need these from you every time,\u2019\u201d Cavalli said Thursday after a 7-0 victory. \u201cHe walked down there at one point and I was just smiling at him because he knew what was going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between Irvin\u2019s crib sheet and his own potent stuff, Cavalli pitched 6 2\/3 no-hit innings before Michael Busch blooped an opposite-field single for the Cubs\u2019 lone hit.<\/p>\n<p>Cavalli, who retired the first 15 Cubs before Dansby Swanson walked to lead off the sixth, struck out 10 in a career-high eight innings. Clayton Beeter finished the combined one-hitter with a perfect ninth.<\/p>\n<p>Max Scherzer was the most recent Nationals pitcher to throw a no-hitter, doing so on Oct. 3, 2015, against the New York Mets. The Nationals have two other no-hitters since moving to Washington. Jordan Zimmermann threw one on the last day of the 2014 regular season against Miami, and Scherzer did it against Pittsburgh in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>There has been only one no-hitter in the majors this season, a combined effort by Houston\u2019s Tatsuya Imai, Steven Okert and Alimber Santa against Texas on May 25.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Blake Snell was the last to throw a solo no-hitter, doing so Aug. 2, 2024, against Cincinnati while pitching for San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed as though Cavalli could end that drought. He needed only 29 pitches to breeze through three innings, and was at 54 pitches through five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t really thinking about the no-hitter in the third, but I was looking at the pitch count as he\u2019s going into the fourth inning and I was like, this is complete-game type of pitching the way he was going and how quickly he was getting some outs,\u201d first-year Washington manager Blake Butera said.<\/p>\n<p>Cavalli (10-5) said some of his strategy stemmed from Chicago\u2019s patient approach. The Cubs entered the day with the most walks in the majors and the second-most runs behind Washington, so there was merit to the right-hander\u2019s plan to compete over the plate.<\/p>\n<p>His biggest hiccup came after the Nationals scored five runs in the fifth to take a 6-0 lead. Swanson drew a four-pitch walk to foil the perfect game and Michael Conforto then got ahead 3-0. But Cavalli induced a double-play grounder to erase Swanson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just wanted to see him work out of it, and that\u2019s a big part of him taking the next step as well,\u201d Butera said. \u201cThings are going well and then he sits down for what felt like two hours in between innings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butera said his policy is to allow a pitcher to take a no-hitter as far as he can until he says he can\u2019t go anymore. It didn\u2019t come to that with Cavalli, who turns 28 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Despite falling behind 1-2 in the count, Busch poked a looping single that landed in front of left fielder Daylen Lile. Cavalli got Alex Bregman to fly out, then returned in the eighth and stranded Swanson (who walked again) when Conforto was called out on strikes on Cavalli\u2019s 103rd pitch.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the moment, it stinks,\u201d Cavalli said. \u201cBut you just have to get right to the next pitch. I feel like that\u2019s just something that\u2019s been a motto in my life. Make the next best decision. No matter what happens, there\u2019s a reaction to every action. I know my defense gave it everything they had. If they could have caught that, if they could have dove, they would have done it. It fell in the right spot.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"permission\" style=\"padding-top: 25px;\">\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 The Washington Times, LLC.\n                        <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cade Cavalli approached Washington Nationals teammate Jake Irvin with a first-time request Tuesday night: Cavalli wanted Irvin\u2019s notes for getting ready to face the Chicago Cubs. 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