NEW YORK — 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 an apparent injury.
The score was tied 1-1 in the top of the seventh when Cease left the game, with the Yankees going on to win 4-3 in extra innings.
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.
After the game, Shildt said the Padres were hopeful it was just a forearm cramp, but didn’t want to take any chances with Cease.
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.
Cease, who pitched the second no-hitter in San Diego history last July at Washington, threw 59 of his 89 pitches for strikes. He struck out a season-best nine and walked two in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. Another batter reached on catcher’s interference.
The right-hander is 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in eight starts this season. He exited 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.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this story.