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After a roughly hour-long rain delay, the Washington Nationals are back to two games above .500 after evening the series against the Toronto Blue Jays following an 8-6 finish on Tuesday night.
Cade Cavalli lasted six innings and tossed 98 pitches to pick up the win and move to 8-4 on the season, allowing two earned runs and six hits to go with three strikeouts. Tom Cosgrove and Orlando Ribalta both stepped in to pitch a clean inning, while Clayton Beeter picked up his 11th save of the season.
Brady House, stepping in as a pinch hitter for Jorbit Vivas, finished 2-for-3 to join Luis Garcia Jr. as the lone Nationals to record multi-hit games, accounting for half of the team's hits in the win.
Washington set the tone in the first inning after James Wood both opened and closed the inning, giving an idea for just how dominant of a start the Nationals got out to.
After James Wood drew a leadoff walk, Dylan Crews followed suit before an infield hit from CJ Abrams loaded the bases with one out. Then consecutive walks -- first for Keibert Ruiz, then Daylen Lile -- drove in the first two runs of the night before Nasim Nunez hit a sac fly to right field to make it 3-0. Jorbit Vivas would draw the fifth walk of the inning to load the bases once again, leading Jacob Young to draw the sixth walk to make it 4-0.
The six walks through the first inning marked the most in a single inning in team history.
Toronto eventaully answered back after an error by Vivas in the third inning allowed the first run, then a groundout in the fourth inning cut Washington's lead in half, 4-2.
The Nationals would answer back with a firework after Luis Garcia Jr. and Dylan Crews hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the fourth, marking the fourth time this season and third time in July the Nationals have hit consecutive home runs.
With the Nationals ahead 8-3 heading into the eighth inning, Gus Varland struggled in what proved to be a short inning after allowing the first two batters to reach base, the second due to an error by Abrams, before giving up a three-run home run that cut the lead to 8-6.
Yet Clayton Beeter would step in for a 12 pitch performance, more than enough to pick up a strikeout then win, lifting the Nationals to 55-53 this season.
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Cade Cavalli lasted six innings and tossed 98 pitches to pick up the win and move to 8-4 on the season, allowing two earned runs and six hits to go with three strikeouts. Tom Cosgrove and Orlando Ribalta both stepped in to pitch a clean inning, while Clayton Beeter picked up his 11th save of the season.
Brady House, stepping in as a pinch hitter for Jorbit Vivas, finished 2-for-3 to join Luis Garcia Jr. as the lone Nationals to record multi-hit games, accounting for half of the team's hits in the win.
Washington set the tone in the first inning after James Wood both opened and closed the inning, giving an idea for just how dominant of a start the Nationals got out to.
After James Wood drew a leadoff walk, Dylan Crews followed suit before an infield hit from CJ Abrams loaded the bases with one out. Then consecutive walks -- first for Keibert Ruiz, then Daylen Lile -- drove in the first two runs of the night before Nasim Nunez hit a sac fly to right field to make it 3-0. Jorbit Vivas would draw the fifth walk of the inning to load the bases once again, leading Jacob Young to draw the sixth walk to make it 4-0.
The six walks through the first inning marked the most in a single inning in team history.
Toronto eventaully answered back after an error by Vivas in the third inning allowed the first run, then a groundout in the fourth inning cut Washington's lead in half, 4-2.
The Nationals would answer back with a firework after Luis Garcia Jr. and Dylan Crews hit back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the fourth, marking the fourth time this season and third time in July the Nationals have hit consecutive home runs.
With the Nationals ahead 8-3 heading into the eighth inning, Gus Varland struggled in what proved to be a short inning after allowing the first two batters to reach base, the second due to an error by Abrams, before giving up a three-run home run that cut the lead to 8-6.
Yet Clayton Beeter would step in for a 12 pitch performance, more than enough to pick up a strikeout then win, lifting the Nationals to 55-53 this season.
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