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Dylan Cease Reveals What He Said to Manager to Stay in Game in Midst of No-Hitter

Josh Wilson

Dylan Cease throws a pitch
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Dylan Cease completed a no-hitter in the San Diego Padres' 3–0 win over the Washington Nationals on Thursday, throwing 114 pitches (71 strikes) while striking out nine and allowing three walks.

After the seventh inning, manager Mike Shildt had a brief conversation with Cease that looked like he may take him out, only for Cease to come back in for the eighth inning just minutes later. After the game, Cease detailed to the Padres broadcast team what occured in that dugout conversation.

"[Shildt] said 'Nice job', and I looked up and it was like 94 pitches," Cease said. "And I just said I feel great, and if we get through the next one at like 105, then, you know, I've thrown 113 this year, so, thankfully they let me talk him into it and here we are."

A nine-pitch eighth inning gave Cease the space he needed to stay under that mark of 105. He went into the ninth with 103 pitches on the afternoon.

Cease became the second Padres pitcher to throw a no-hitter, joining Joe Musgrove, who threw the first no-no in franchise history on April 9, 2021.

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JOSH WILSON

Josh Wilson is the news director of the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in 2024, he worked for FanSided in a variety of roles, most recently as senior managing editor of the brand’s flagship site. He has also served as a general manager of Sportscasting, the sports arm of a start-up sports media company, where he oversaw the site’s editorial and business strategy. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from SUNY Cortland and a master’s in accountancy from the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois. He loves a good nonfiction book and enjoys learning and practicing Polish. Wilson lives in Chicago but was raised in upstate New York. He spent most of his life in the Northeast and briefly lived in Poland, where he ate an unhealthy amount of pastries for six months.

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