Diamondbacks hit three home runs against Cease, including Geraldo Perdomo’s grand slam
The Padres’ Dylan Cease watches a grand slam by the Diamondbacks’ Geraldo Perdomo in the fifth inning of Wednesday night’s game at Petco Park. Mike Shildt is excited to see Dylan Cease pitch. “Love his arm and love his arsenal, and I’m excited for him tonight,” Shildt said Wednesday afternoon.
“It’s gonna be a good night.” That might have varied by a word or two from what the Padres manager has said before virtually each game in which Cease is about to pitch this season.Cease, who was expected at the start of the season to be the same anchor in the rotation he was in 2024, continued to flounder almost inexplicably in an 8-2 loss to the Diamondbacks at Petco Park. The right-hander with the 98 mph fastball and devastating slider surrendered a home run in three successive innings and departed after six innings having allowed six runs on five hits and three walks while striking out eight. It was an ugly night all around for the Padres, whose offense did what it has so often this season, as well, hardly scoring and somehow making a struggling pitcher look like Cease used to look.Diamondbacks starter Brandon Pfaadt entered the game with a 5.42 ERA and went eight innings for the first time in his career. The Padres scored both their runs and managed four hits against the right-hander, who had not had a quality start in any of his eight starts leading up to Wednesday. Fernando Tatis Jr. led off the bottom of the first inning with a double grounded down the line and into the corner in left field. The three outs that followed began another fruitless night with runners in scoring position, as Padres finished 0-for-5 and have gone 16-for-97 with runners in scoring position over their past 14 games.After Tatis’ double, the Padres’ next baserunner came with one out in the fifth inning on a single by Xander Bogaerts.Cease threw seven strikes in the first inning. That was it. No balls. A three-pitch strikeout by Corbin Carroll, a groundout on a check swing on the first pitch to Ketel Marte and a pop-up by Geraldo Perdomo inspired visions of his having the kind of night he has so often had in his career. He went on to retire all three batters he faced in the second and the Diamondbacks’ first batter in the third before leaving a fastball up and on the inner third of the plate that James McCann lined to the second deck of seats beyond left field at 110 mph. Cease got right back to being nasty, setting down the next four batters before his first pitch to Eugenio Suarez, a slider hung belt-high on the outer portion of the plate, was hit high and landed just beyond the left field wall.It would become the first time since Sept. 5, 2023, while pitching for the White Sox, that he gave up three homers.No, Perdomo hit a grand slam in the fifth inning after Cease had walked two batters and surrendered a single. Bogaerts got the Padres on the scoreboard in the fifth after grounding a ball through the right side of the infield, advancing to third base on Jake Cronenworth’s double and running home on a groundout by Bryce Johnson.Even before the Diamondbacks added two runs off Eduarniel Nuñez, it would have taken a lot more offense than that to overcome what they were able to do to Cease. And the Padres have scored six runs once in their past 10 games. Cease has said several times after starts, including his most recent, that there remains time to turn around his season.Cease has shown glimpses of the pitcher who threw a no-hitter and finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting last season, such as when he shut out the Dodgers on three hits and struck out 11 over seven innings on June 10.Michelin-starred sushi, $2,500-a-seat dinners: Vice President Vance wraps up San Diego visitSan Diego’s USS Carl Vinson joined in Arabian Sea by sister carrier USS NimitzMountain West adds Grand Canyon for upcoming season against wishes of SDSU, othersNew Lemon Grove council member and high school football coach dies suddenlyProposed street connecting Rancho Bernardo and Rancho Peñasquitos faces opposition
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