Cavalli Dominates but Empties the Benches

The Nats beat the Red Sox 8-1 on Tuesday night in a game that will be best be remembered for a bench clearing brawl.  Mark (From Fenway Park) & Al hold an extended discussion about what happened in the bottom of the 4th in Boston. Cade Cavalli struck out Willson Contreras and then after some verbal exchanges, both teams ran onto the field.  Contreras was ejected, but not Cavalli.

(05:30) Cavalli was every bit the Ace in the win as he struck out 13 Red Sox hitters and lasted seven innings. He will enter July with a 3.69 ERA.

(08:00) Parsing through the kerfuffle and what led to it on Tuesday night.

(20:30) Miles Mikolas was the only National ejected during the skirmish even though he never played in this game.  Mikolas in the past was teammates with Contreras in St. Louis.

(25:00) James Wood had a trio of hits and knocked in a pair of runs. Wood's OPS currently sits at .898. The offense broke the game wide open with seven runs in the late innings.

(28:00) Luis Garcia Jr. drove in a staggering 27 runs in June. Garcia Jr. was recently recognized as the NL Player of the week for his stretch of six homers in six games.

(30:00) Andres Chaparro was 0 for 2 and his average is just .156.  Why has he been hitting 2nd in the order at times?

(35:20) Mitchell Parker is out for the year after spraining his UCL and he will likely need surgery.