Cavalli & Ferrer Shutout the Phils

Nats Chat

Mark Zuckerman & Al Galdi

Sports, Baseball

4.9 • 573 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Nats had one of their best days in awhile in Saturday's 2-0 victory over the visiting Phillies. Mark & Al discuss the young building blocks that contributed to the win; headlined by Cade Cavalli, who tossed seven shutout frames. Miguel Cairo showed trust in the young right-hander by allowing him to pitch the top of the 7th and last 90 pitches. (12:15) Jose A. Ferrer handled the final two frames and needed 24 pitches in order to do it. Ferrer notched his second save after taking over closer duties for the recently traded Kyle Finnegan. (20:45) James Wood's 2-run double in the bottom of the 5th provided the only offensive production of the day. Josh Bell was the lone member of Washington's lineup to have multiple hits in the afternoon. (29:00) Mitchell Parker will take the mound for Sunday's 11:35AM start time in the series finale. Aaron Nola will go for Philadelphia and it will be his first outing since he was placed on the IL in mid-May due to a sprained ankle. (30:45) Mark has more information on Keibert Ruiz fielding grounders at 1B on Friday during pregame warmups.

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0:00.0	Save the date. The Nats Chat end-of-year podcast party will be Friday night, October 10th at Walters.
0:07.1	Start time is TBD.
0:12.2	The 2-0 delivery. So we had a line drive left center field. Long chase Jacob Young on his horse.
0:17.5	Back he goes. He makes a running catch. Crosses on the warning track and left center field.
0:21.6	Kate Cavali has his first one, two, three inning, and he's finished six innings for the first time in his big league career.
0:28.6	Two balls, two strikes. Cavali ready, the big right-hander, winds and he fires.
0:33.6	Swig and a miss, he struck him out in a curve ball. Cavali screams into his glove on the way back to the dugout.
0:40.4	He has tossed seven scoreless innings at the Philadelphia Phillies. He finishes the seventh inning with his fifth
0:46.1	strikeout. What a performance by Cade Cavali. He's getting a big ovation for the fans on the first base side.
0:52.9	And welcome to Nat's chat along with Massinsports.com, National's insider Mark Zuckerman,
0:57.8	who is at Nationals Park. I'm Al-Galdi, host of the Al-Galdi podcast.
1:01.6	The Nationals starting pitching over the first three games of a four-game series
1:05.5	against the National League East leading Philadelphia Phillies at Nationals Park has been
1:09.6	outstanding. Saturday, a 2-0
1:11.8	win over the Phillies as Cade Cavali tossed seven shutout innings. This off Bradlord and
1:18.3	McKenzie Gore, each allowing two runs in six innings in games one and two respectively. What a job
1:24.3	by this Nats rotation in this series so far. The Nats have won two of the first three
1:28.7	games of this series now in MLB's 20-25 regular season are 50 and 73. The Phillies have the exact
1:34.8	opposite record. They now are in National League East Best 70 and 53. You can find us on X at Nats underscore
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