Indiana Fever suffer worst loss of the season in Caitlin Clark's first missed game of career

One whitethorn reason that adjacent though Caitlin Clark was disconnected the tribunal connected Wednesday, it made a lawsuit that she is the Most Valuable Player successful the WNBA.

That's due to the fact that successful the Indiana Fever's archetypal crippled without Clark since she suffered a quad injury, the Fever suffered their worst nonaccomplishment of the young WNBA season.

The Washington Mystics took down the Clark-less Fever, 83-77, connected Wednesday night.

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Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark talks with the referee aft the 2nd 4th against the Washington Mystics astatine Entertainment & Sports Arena.  (Emily Faith Morgan-Imagn Images)

The Fever started retired hot, getting retired to a 10-4 lead, and adjacent starring by 5 astatine a constituent during the 2nd quarter.

But from 5:47 near successful the 2nd until 5:03 near successful regulation, the Mystics outscored the Fever, 46-32. Their 11-point pb (73-62) was their largest of the nighttime until garbage clip escaped throws with nether a infinitesimal left.

Indiana scored 7 points successful the last 22 seconds to debar a double-digit loss, but the bulk of the last 25 minutes were each Mystics.

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) cheers from the seat successful the archetypal 4th against the Washington Mystics astatine Entertainment & Sports Arena.  (Emily Faith Morgan-Imagn Images)

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The Fever's erstwhile 2 losses this play came by a combined 3 points - they mislaid by 1 to the Atlanta Dream and by 2 to the reigning champion New York Liberty. The Fever had the shot successful the last seconds successful some of those contests.

Their 77 points are the lowest they've scored each season, arsenic well. They had antecedently scored 93, 90, 81, and 88.

Clark is slated to miss astatine slightest 2 weeks with a close quad injury. In their archetypal 4 games, the Fever's constituent differential was +37.

The erstwhile Iowa Hawkeye is averaging 19.0 points, 9.3 assists and 6.0 rebounds successful her 4 games of the 2025 season. Last year, she acceptable the single-season grounds for the astir assists successful 1 year, en way to winning Rookie of the Year. Aliyah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell tied with a team-high 4 assists connected the night. The Fever arsenic a full had conscionable 15 connected the nighttime – Clark had a WNBA grounds 19 connected July 17 of past year.

DeWanna Bonner dropped 21 points disconnected the bench, starring the Fever.

Indiana Fever defender Caitlin Clark (22) sits connected the seat earlier the crippled against the Washington Mystics astatine Entertainment & Sports Arena. (Emily Faith Morgan-Imagn Images)

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Clark netted a season-high 27 points past Tuesday against the Dream. She dropped 20-plus points successful each of her archetypal 2 games earlier settling for conscionable 11 connected Thursday and past 18 connected Saturday against the Liberty.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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