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| Padres' Dylan Cease tosses MLB's second no-hitter of season vs. Nationals |
Dylan Cease of the San Diego Padres pitched the second no-hitter of the MLB season on Thursday against the Washington Nationals.
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Cease threw 114 pitches, allowing three baserunners via walks but faced just one over the minimum.
Lane Thomas walked with one out in the first inning and was caught stealing. He walked again in the fourth but was erased on Jesse Winker's double-play grounder. CJ Abrams walked to lead off the seventh and was stranded at second base.
The closest the Nationals came to a hit was when Juan Yepez hit a fly ball to shallow center leading off the fifth inning. The ball popped out of second baseman Xander Bogaerts' glove, but center fielder Jackson Merrill caught it before it hit the ground.
Cease had two complete games in his 144 big league starts before this, both shutouts with the Chicago White Sox: a seven-inning three-hitter against Detroit on April 29, 2021, and a nine-inning one-hitter vs. Minnesota on Sept. 3, 2022. In the latter game, now-teammate Luis Arráez lined a single to right-center with two outs in the ninth inning.
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Cease's previous season high was 113 pitches over seven scoreless innings against his former team, the White Sox, on May 8, matching his career high.
San Diego won 3-0, thanks to Ha-Seong Kim's three-run single in the first inning.
The only other no-hitter this season was by Houston's Ronel Blanco against Toronto on April 1.
Joe Musgrove is the only other Padres pitcher to throw a no-hitter, doing so on April 9, 2021.
