Enter the Dragon: Cease Dominates in Jays Series Win
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How dominant was Dylan Cease in the Blue Jays' 10-0 win in San Francisco?
Oh, Kevin, I don't know what more we can add to what we just saw today from Dylan Cease in that 10-0 win. Very close to the second no-hitter in franchise history, giving up the leadoff single in the ninth inning. Still finishing the day with 11 strikeouts, three walks. Just... I mean, just... You know what? I've covered, like, three perfect games as a writer, and I've seen other no-hitters, and you can kind of tell, I think, when a dude really has no-hit stuff. And I, honest to God, I started thinking about this in the fourth inning after the walk. I was just waiting. Okay, you know, got a man on base now. Let's see what happens. Let's see how he gets out of this. Let's see if... And once that happened...
Then you start looking back and looking at his velo and looking at where his pitches were. You're going, man, he might actually have no-hit stuff today. He didn't get a no-hitter, but he had no-hit stuff without question. Yeah, look, I think it's sort of exactly what you were just saying there, how he maintained his stuff through the entire outing. You know, the telecast was talking about how hard his 118th pitch was. For me, it was the self-correcting. That's the first time as a Blue Jay that I've actually seen him on the mound kind of draw lines with his self mentally. And you could see with his hands he was telling himself when he threw a bad pitch to kind of get it back in the lanes and finish that thing.
I haven't seen him do that, and I think that's kind of, you know – where he's taking a little bit of a step forward to just kind of learning. You know, the telecast talk before the game about how long he's keeping his eyes on the target now and not so much looking at third like he does or the dugout, whichever were. He's sort of directing his eyes. Now he's staying on the target a little bit longer because that's where he wants the ball to go. I mean, it's kind of baseball 101. But, again, I think it's accumulation of a bunch of things. You know, for whatever reason, you know, whether he's gripping that changeup a little bit different, the variance in the speeds now, it's about three miles an hour slower.
So now it's anywhere from 99 to 79. I mean, if you're hitting that thing or trying, if you're left-handed, which I was, and I'm standing on the on-deck circle and I'm seeing my lefty buddies get anything from 80 to 99, it's just going to be a long day. And that's one of the best sliders. we've seen him throw. It's tighter. He was getting more swings on it. When you get more swings on that thing, you get more called strikes on your fastball. That's exactly what happened. So it's just accumulation of a bunch of things. But that one thing that stood out to me, Jeff, other than the thing that you just mentioned about how long he sort of keeps all of his stuff. I mean, he's got dynamite stuff from pitch one to the last pitch he throws.
But for me, the separator is the self-correcting. You could just tell now that he's done it so much with whoever he's doing it with, you know, other than Pete Walker, they found something that allows him on the mound to go, when I throw a bad one, it don't take me four or five bad ones, Jeff. Now it's only going to take me one. I'm going to self-correct. I'm going to get it back in the zone, and I'm going to give myself a chance to dominate a lineup. That's exactly what happened. It's unbelievable stuff. That would be pretty cool to play behind. I know that. It's Blue Jays Talk with Jeff Blair and Kevin Barker. The numbers, as always, 416-870-0590, star 590, 1-888-666-0590. 590-590 is the text line. The Blue Jays have beaten the San Francisco Giants 10-0.
They've taken the three-game series, winning two, losing one. Kevin, they've scored 19 runs since going toy shopping. Well, I mean, they did. They went toy shopping about the stuffed dragon and a bunch of other toys. Three dragons. One. What? It's three dragons. Three dragons. I mean, we heard David Hopkins talking about them wanting to be more fearless and have a more fearless approach and everything.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How dominant was Dylan Cease in the Blue Jays' 10-0 win in San Francisco?
0:03–4:12
2
What pitch tweaks and self-correction did analysts credit for Cease's performance?
4:12–12:09
3
What is the story behind the stuffed dragon celebration and who should name it?
12:09–25:11
4
Was it the right decision for John Schneider to let Cease keep pitching with a rising pitch count?
25:11–34:50