May 8th, 2025

After losing no-hit bid in 7th inning, Padres pitcher Dylan Cease exits with forearm cramp


By Canadian Press on May 7, 2025.

NEW YORK (AP) — Moments after losing a no-hit bid in the seventh inning, San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease left his start against the New York Yankees with a cramp in his right forearm.

Cody Bellinger homered into the second deck in right field on an 0-2 fastball clocked at 98 mph with one out in the seventh for New York’s first hit Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.

Cease then struck out Anthony Volpe and got ahead 1-2 in the count against Jasson Domínguez before manager Mike Shildt and a Padres athletic trainer went to the mound.

Cease nodded his head repeatedly during the discussion that followed and ultimately walked off the field with the trainer and into the dugout.

Jason Adam was given all the time he needed to warm up on the field, and he was credited with the strikeout when Domínguez went down looking to end the inning.

After the Yankees rallied for a 4-3 victory in 10 innings, the Padres said Cease exited with a cramp in his right forearm.

Cease, who pitched the second no-hitter in San Diego history last July at Washington, threw 59 of his 89 pitches for strikes and whiffed star slugger Aaron Judge all three times they squared off.

The right-hander struck out a season-best nine and walked two in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. Another batter reached on catcher’s interference.

Cease is 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in eight starts this season. He left with the score tied 1-all.

Cease was acquired from the Chicago White Sox for a package of four players in a March 2024 trade. He finished second in 2022 AL Cy Young Award balloting and fourth in NL voting last year after going 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA in 33 starts during his first season with the Padres.

There have been 12 no-hitters pitched at Yankee Stadium, including Don Larsen’s perfect game for New York in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Eight no-hitters have been thrown against the Yankees — six in New York. Four of those came since the team began playing at Yankee Stadium in 1923. The most recent was a combined effort by Houston pitchers Cristian Javier, Héctor Neris and Ryan Pressly on June 25, 2022.

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Mike Fitzpatrick, The Associated Press





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