From 2018-2025, Cleveland’s baseball team has not been known for its monster run totals. But when your opponent’s bullpen is full of McCaughans, scoring looks easy.
So often on Tuesday, the Nationals relievers got into trouble that could only be described as self-inflicted. Walks... wild pitches... being behind in the count constantly... throwing Austin Hedges a low-and-in pitch... ya know, the things you just can’t do.
So how do you score 18 runs and split the games? No, not by scoring 16 in one and 2 in the other, surprisingly. The runs were actually evenly split 9 and 9.