Cease Carves Red Sox in CGSO, Jays Even Series
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How did Dylan Cease dominate the Red Sox for a 6-0 complete game shutout?
Well, Caitlin, I haven't been able to say this for quite some time, so it is truly pleasant to be able to say it this afternoon. This was a nice, low-stress win. I mean, we just haven't had too many of those. this season overall, but today a 6-0 Blue Jays shutout win. Dylan Cease, phenomenal stuff from him. He outpitches Sonny Gray, I would say, by quite a large margin in what was a really attractive pitching matchup on paper coming into this one. Jay's offense comes through with two strikes in the third, essentially that entire inning. Another insurance run late in the ninth with the win. They evened the series at one game apiece, now 48-57 on the year, but How can you not talk and lavish all the superlatives onto Dylan Cease?
I mean, what a treat. He was masterful today. A one hit complete game shutout for Cease. I got to say this when he was throwing 92, 93 miles an hour in the first inning, I did not have a complete game shutout on the bingo card. So phenomenal stuff from Cease today.
Yeah, totally agree. I mean, as you say, that first inning, we were kind of wondering what was up. Things looked a little spotty there with the velocity. And even looking at his baseball savant performance page today, it's like the arrows pointing down based on what he did today and what he has done for the year. Every pitch velocity was down a little bit. Usually that – It doesn't spell good things, but credit to him. He obviously was able to grind through it. Potentially we'll hear from him after the game in terms of what was up. Maybe it was just one of those days, like sometimes pitchers can have, like dead arm.
Maybe he didn't have a coffee this morning. Who knows?
Yeah, maybe. Maybe he's just, I don't know. Maybe it's cooler in Boston, or I have no idea what could have possibly caused it. But you know what? Credit to him because he didn't let it impact him at all. I mean, if anything, he thrived under the conditions that he was under. And he almost got better as the game went along. I think Ben said it as he was wrapping up the broadcast, like, Six strikeouts in the last two innings. So he was phenomenal. And the Blue Jays needed it. They needed it after last night. They had needed it during this stretch. Blue Jays, as we said in the pregame, purposely structured their rotation so that they would have Cease going against the Red Sox for this series, which is a pivotal one for them.
And he stepped up for them.
He did, no question. That is Caitlin McGrath. I'm Sho Ali. You're listening to Blue Jays Talk on Sportsnet 590, the fan, sportsnet.ca, the Sportsnet app. You can give us a call, 416-870-0590, 1-888-666-0590, star 590 on your cell. You can text us as well, 590-590, name and location, please. The people's text line is always open. Standard messaging and data rates may apply. So here's some fun, some smaller stats, some larger stats for you with the complete game shutout for Blue Jays. Dylan sees first complete game shutout by Blue Jays starting pitcher since Gossman did it last year. Bassett also had a complete game shutout against the Braves. I think that was in 2023. Gossman had also had another one. I think he's had two complete game shutouts as a Blue Jays
And I believe before that, there was, I think there was a Hyunjin Ryu complete game shutout. Although I do believe that was in a seven inning. That was like in a split double header, I think. You probably covered that game, I'm guessing. But yeah, that was a seven inning game. So, you know, people like kind of do the assist at whether or not you count it. There's an asterisk on that one. Exactly. And in terms of nine innings, it's really just Gosman a couple times and then Bassett. So phenomenal stuff from Dylan Cease. This is from OptaStats.com. And I often feel I find with these kinds of things, it feels a little cherry picked, but still I do. I do like reading these because it sounds fun. Dylan sees is the second MLB pitcher in the modern era to go eight or more innings, allow no more than one hit and strike out 10 or more batters.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How did Dylan Cease dominate the Red Sox for a 6-0 complete game shutout?
0:06–6:10
2
What explained Dylan Cease's first-inning velocity dip and midgame ramp-up?
6:10–18:02
3
How rare is Cease’s one-hit, 12‑K complete game compared to historical performances?
18:02–21:15
4
Could Cease’s season push him into the AL Cy Young conversation and does team success matter?
21:15–48:29