The Scorecard · September 18, 2026

Washington Nationals at St. Louis Cardinals

Washington took the lead in the first and never let St. Louis back into the game.

Fever Baseball · Scored on the record

Washington Nationals at St. Louis Cardinals

Busch Stadium · September 18, 2026 · Final: WSH 9, STL 1 · W: Cade Cavalli

First pitch 7:15 PM · Final out 9:57 PM · Time of game 2:42

Umpires — HP Dan Merzel · 1B Dan Bellino · 2B Mark Ripperger · 3B Shane Livensparger

ABSWSH STL ● won · ✕ lost · ○ in hand

Scored play-by-play by the FVR engine from the official MLB feed — every mark reconciled, or the card refuses to print. Tap any box for the pitches that made the mark.

Washington Nationals

9R7H0E4LOB

Batter

PHJosé TenaPH/DH WSH

→Nasim NuñezSS WSH

Yohandy Morales1B WSH

Harry FordC WSH

Jacob YoungCF WSH

Runs

PitchersIPHRERBBSOPS

Cade CavalliW5.0400067355

Brad Lord2.0100032817

Jack Sinclair1.011110117

Josiah Gray1.01000087

SBCJ Abrams (2B, 3B)

St. Louis Cardinals

1R7H3E7LOB

Batter

→Nolan Gorman1B STL

→Victor Scott IIRF STL

Leo BernalC STL

Thomas Saggese3B/SS STL

Bryan TorresLF STL

Masyn WinnSS STL

PHCésar PrietoPH/3B STL

Nathan ChurchCF STL

Runs

PitchersIPHRERBBSOPS

Kyle LeahyL3.0576316138

Cooper Hjerpe4.0222237450

Cade Winquest2.0000122818

Excitement 1.40 of win probability moved, per nine inningsComeback 2.3 — the winner's floor was 44%Biggest swing +0.176 in the 1st, at leverage 0.8

The hit chart

Where every ball landed

WSH — visitors

STL — home

hit

out

All 15 hits located, and 52 balls in play with them. Coordinates are the game’s own, from the same feed the engine reads.

Reading the marks · no black boxes

1–9 the nine fielders (1 P, 2 C, 3 1B … 9 RF)

6‑3 ground out, shortstop to first

3U put out unassisted

K strikeout · K called (backward)

F8 fly · P6 pop · L7 line (to that fielder)

1B8 hit, with where it went

BB walk · HBP hit by pitch

FC 6 fielder’s choice, fielded by 6

◆ diamond fills = run scored

⚫ the out it made (1, 2, or 3), in that runner’s box

2‑4 a runner retired on the bases (caught stealing, picked off), written small in his box as the chain that got him

one dot per run driven in (RBI)

PH · PR · → a substitute badged by his name — pinch hitter, pinch runner, or defensive sub

A ABS (Automated Ball‑Strike) challenge — filled = overturned

The diamond fills teal when the run scores; the out lands in the box of the runner it was made on. Names link to their pages at www.feverbaseball.com. New to the marks? The primer scores a full inning from scratch. Every pitch under these marks is typed, clocked and located off the same official feed. A hand-scorer could record what happened; nobody could record the pitch that did it.

Home plate: Dan Merzel · Blue Notes for this game → · his road to the plate →Crew: 1B Dan Bellino · 2B Mark Ripperger · 3B Shane Livensparger

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Cade Cavalli needed 73 pitches to get through five, walked nobody, struck out six, and handed a 7-0 lead to a bullpen that had nowhere to put the pressure. The Cardinals gave three errors and left seven on base to a club that scored nine runs on seven hits. Dylan Crews turned on a 94.4 mph sinker in the third for his twelfth, and Kyle Leahy wore all six earned runs. Cavalli went five clean on 55 strikes in 73 pitches — that is a start a rotation can use, and the kind of night a pitcher builds on.

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