The Washington Nationals had a big series victory on the road over the Boston Red Sox this week, and they did so in pretty dominant fashion. After dropping the series opener, the Nationals outscored the Red Sox 18-2 once Willson Contreras ignited the flame within Cade Cavalli, leading to the slugger's ejection.
Once the game ended, new video evidence came out that seemingly exonerated Cavalli from blame for the incident, but not everyone saw it that way. In fact, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy saw things very differently, and made that very clear after the game.
Chad Tracy blasts umpires for not ejecting Nationals' Cade Cavalli
This will likely be the last piece we publish on the Tuesday night skirmish, but the comments made by the Red Sox skipper were just too egregious not to talk about. Tracy was seemingly bewildered at the fact that Cavalli was not ejected from Tuesday night's game, and he even went as far as implying that the Nationals' pitcher instigated Contreras, which we now know is not really true.
While Cavalli did ultimately yell, "Sit down, boy!" at the top of his lungs after striking out Contreras, anyone who has ever played a professional sport should be able to realize that it was just a case of athletes being in the heat of the moment, and was not personal at all. Unfortunately, many Red Sox fans failed to realize that, and ended up spewing some awful narratives about Cavalli's character.
However, Tracy's comments ultimately seemed to show either true delusion thinking that Cavalli began the whole thing unprovoked, or truly ignorant to what really happened during the incident. I'm not sure if he had seen the video that came out yesterday by the time he had given these comments, but perhaps it might help open his eyes that his own player was mostly at fault.
I get where he's coming from as well, as Cavalli turned in the best start of his career and mowed down the Red Sox lineup en route to 7.0 innings, allowing just 1 unearned run and striking out 13 batters. For a Red Sox team that has struggled all year, Cavalli dicing them up was probably a bit of a gut punch and ego check, especially after their best player got tossed and took nobody from the opposition down with him.
Do you think Chad Tracy has a point about Cade Cavalli not being ejected from Tuesday night's game? As always, please let me know on X, @DCBerk.
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