Cease, from No-Hit to Injury: The Drama at Yankee Stadium That Bittered the Padres

NEW YORK – San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease left the mound in the seventh inning due to an apparent injury, shortly after losing his no-hitter bid against the New York Yankees.

The score was tied 1-1 when Cease left the game. The Yankees ended up winning 4-3 in extra innings.

Cody Bellinger hit a home run to the second level of right field off a 98 mph fastball, with one out in the seventh inning, marking New York’s first hit of the game.

After striking out Anthony Volpe, Cease went to a 1-2 count against Jasson Domínguez, at which point manager Mike Shildt and a Padres coach approached the mound.

Cease nodded repeatedly during the conversation and finally left the field with the coach, heading to the dugout.

After the game, Shildt expressed that they hoped it was just a forearm cramp, but that they didn’t want to risk it with Cease.

Mike Shildt

Jason Adam was sent to warm up in the field and was credited with the strikeout when Dominguez was struck out to end the inning.

Cease, who threw the second no-hitter in San Diego history last July in Washington, threw 59 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He struck out nine batters, the most this season, and walked two in 6⅔ innings, his longest outing this season. Another batter reached base on catcher’s interference.

The right-handed pitcher has a 1-2 record with a 4.91 ERA in eight starts this season. He left the game with the score tied at one.

Cease was acquired from the Chicago White Sox in March 2024, in exchange for four players. He finished second in the voting for the American League Cy Young Award in 2022 and fourth in the National League voting last year, after posting 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA in 33 starts during his first season with the Padres.

12 no-hitters have been thrown 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 them have occurred 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.