WASHINGTON – For the first time since 2008, a Nationals starting pitcher and catcher made their Major League debuts in the same game. If there were any first-day nerves, left-hander Andrew Alvarez and C.J. Stubbs didn’t show them.

The battery took a no-hitter into the fifth inning in the Nationals’ 2-0 win over the Marlins on Monday afternoon at Nationals Park. Alvarez became the first pitcher in Nats team history (2005-present) to throw at least five scoreless frames in his Major League debut. Behind the plate, Stubbs is the first catcher in Nationals team history to catch a shutout in his debut and the first in baseball to do so since the Athletics' Sean Murphy (Sept. 4, 2019), per Elias Sports Bureau.

“We’ll be able to share that for the rest of our lives,” said Stubbs, 28.

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