Washington Nationals at Texas Rangers

· Major League Baseball

Washington Nationals

61-67, 34-31 Away

Final
6 - 0

Texas Rangers

62-65, 33-28 Home

Cade Cavalli has second double-digit strikeout game in row as Nationals beat Rangers 6-0

Cade Cavalli twirls another gem with 11 strikeouts

Cavalli (11-5) limited the Rangers to three singles and walked one while throwing 58 of 84 pitches for strikes. He was pitching six days after 10 Ks while throwing one-hit ball over eight scoreless innings against the Chicago Cubs. The right-hander is 7-1 his last 10 starts.

José Tena put the Nationals (61-67) ahead to stay with a solo homer in the third, and Andrés Chaparro's third hit in the game was a towering 415-foot drive for a three-run homer in the seventh that made it 6-0. Washington has an MLB-high 182 homers.

The Nationals had lost four in a row and six of seven, a stretch in which the only other win was Cavalli’s against the Cubs last Thursday when he didn’t allow a hit until the seventh.

Will Dion, Max Kranick and Jake Bird each pitched an inning to wrap up Washington's fifth shutout victory. Texas (62-65) dropped out of the American League's third wild card spot.

The first eight outs for the Rangers came on strikeouts before Brandon Nimmo's groundout ended the third. Cavalli got his 10th K in the fourth.

Kumar Rocker (4-10) struck out three while allowing two runs and six hits over his five innings. The right-hander is 0-2 with a 6.87 ERA in his four games since ending July by winning consecutive starts.

Up next Rangers RHP Jacob deGrom (8-8, 3.95 ERA), with an extra day of rest after leaving his previous start a week ago because of triceps fatigue, goes into Thursday's series finale with 1,998 career strikeouts. Lefty Andrew Alvarez (2-4, 3.72) is set to start for Washington.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Duran popped out to second.
	9th Inning	Nimmo flied out to left.
	9th Inning	Langford struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Bird relieved Kranick
	9th Inning	Lile struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Crews flied out to center.

Statistics

WSH		$https://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=/i/teamlogos/mlb/500/tex.png&h=100&scale=crop&w=100&location=origin$ TEX
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
14	Ground Balls	10
5	Strikeouts	13
6	Runs Batted In	0
1	Sacrifice Hit	0
9	Hits	4
0	Stolen Bases	0
3	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	0
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
36	At Bats	31
2	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
18	Runners Left On Base	11
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
3	Doubles	0
18	Fly Balls	8
0	Caught Stealing	0
167	Pitches	120
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
18	Total Bases	4
40	Plate Appearances	32
324.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	0
5.7	Runs Created	-0.4
.250	Batting Average	.129
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.500	Slugging Percentage	.129
.333	Secondary Average	.032
.308	On Base Percentage	.156
.808	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.285
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.3
5.5	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	-0.4
45.0	Batter Rating	4.0
18.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
4.18	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.75
.250	Isolated Power	.000
0.60	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.08
.075	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.031
.083	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.097
12.0	Runs Produced	0.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	0.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.2
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
91.0	MLB Rating	57.3
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0