NEW YORK – San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease left the mound with an apparent injury, moments after losing the chance to throw a no-hitter in the seventh inning against the New York Yankees.
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 Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium.
With the score tied 1-1, Cease struck out Anthony Volpe and got to 1-2 in the count against Jasson Domínguez before manager Mike Shildt and a Padres athletic trainer went to the mound. Cease nodded repeatedly during the conversation and eventually walked off the field with the trainer and headed to the dugout.
Jason Adam had enough time to warm up in the field, and he was credited with the strikeout when Dominguez was dominated 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 allowed two walks in 6 2/3 innings, the most 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 1-1.
Cease was acquired from the Chicago White Sox in exchange for four players in a trade in March 2024. 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.
There have been 12 no-hitters 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 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.
