San Diego Padres’ starter Dylan Cease held the Washington Nationals hitless through 4 2⁄3 innings when he faced the club in Petco Park back on June 26th, before now-former-Nats’ infielder Nick Senzel singled to break up Cease’s bid for the second no-hitter in franchise history.
Going into his second start of the year against Davey Martinez’s crew, the 28-year-old right-hander was coming off back-to-back, one-hit outings in which he gave up early hits, but did pile up Ks with 21 in 13 IP in consecutive wins.
On Thursday afternoon in the nation’s capital, Cease got it right, waiting out a rain delay in the top of the first inning which stretched on for 76 minutes, then taking the mound in the series finale in D.