Padres build big lead; Cease allows two runs in six-plus innings before three relievers close out team’s 11th victory in 14 games
Dylan Cease #84 of the San Diego Padres pitches against the Boston Red Sox at Petco Park on Aug. 10, 2025 in San Diego, CA. The Padres welcomed back the real Dylan Cease and then leaned on their bullpen to beat an excellent team on Sunday.
A 6-2 victory over the Red Sox, who hold the American League’s second wild-card spot and opened the series Friday night with their eighth victory in nine games, was the kind that suggests the Padres are up for a run well into October. In winning their fourth consecutive series, the Padres moved to a season-high 14 games over .500 and improved their standing in the National League wild-card race. They sit in the fifth of six spots, three games ahead of the Mets.Cease tired after six scoreless innings and left Jason Adam with two on and nobody out in the seventh. Adam hit a batter to load the bases and then appeared to get a double-play grounder from Romy Gonzalez that would have scored a run but gotten two outs. But the hard shot by Gonzalez bounced off shortstop Xander Bogaerts’ glove and into shallow center field, and the Padres’ advantage was down to three runs.Adrian Morejón came on for the left-on-left matchup against Red Sox lead-off batter Roman Anthony and struck him out with a 98 mph full-count fastball. After the Padres added a run in the bottom of the seventh on singles by Fernando Tatis Jr. and Luis Arraez and fly ball outs by Manny Machado and Ryan O’Hearn, Morejón began the eighth by walking Alex Bregman before getting an out. With Jeremiah Estrada and Robvert Suarez unavailable du to their workload, Padres manager Mike Shildt went to rookie David Morgan, who struck out cleanup hitter Trevor Story and ended the inning by getting a groundout from Masataka Yoshida.All that came after Cease delivered arguably his most dominant performance with what was certainly his most sustained sharpness. Sunday was one of those days where Cease truly did have what it is often said he does — no-hit stuff. The first two hits against him were a bloop single that fell between left fielder Ramón Laureano and shortstop Xander Bogaerts in the third and a dribbler to third base in the fifth.Two pitches later, Bregman grounded into an inning-ending double play.Red Sox starter Brayan Bello was close to accomplishing the same thing before Freddy Fermin singled with two outs in the third and Bello missed on two 0-2 pitches. First, he hit Tatis and then he left a 97 mph fastball in the heart of the strike zone that Arraez drove to the gap in left-center that brought home both runners. Tatis was again involved when the Padres added to their lead in the fifth, as his single through the left side scored Jake Cronenworth from second base, where he had reached by hustling up a double on a flare down the line in shallow left field. The Padres became just the third team this season to score more than three runs against Bello when Manny Machado singled with one out, stole second with two outs and scored on a single by Bogaerts. Walks by Jackson Merrill and Laureano and Cronenworth followed, and the Padres led 5-0.Navy to name destroyer for former Camp Pendleton Marine awarded Medal of Honor Navy is retiring the last of its storied cruisers. To San Diego veterans, they were ‘the pinnacle of naval power.’ Navy is retiring the last of its storied cruisers. To San Diego veterans, they were ‘the pinnacle of naval power.’His gas and electric bill is around $90 a month. Here’s how he does itBullpen bullish, then Padres walk off to win over Red SoxThe room where it happens: Inside A.J. Preller’s process, production at the trade deadline After Harris shake-up, here’s where San Diego’s Toni Atkins stands in wide open California governor’s race
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