Dylan Cease carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning in San Francisco before the Giants' Heliot Ramos broke it up with a line-drive single to center field. The Blue Jays' Dylan Cease took a no-hitter into the ninth inning Wednesday before the Giants' Heliot Ramos broke it up on a line-drive single to center field. Tyler Rogers came on and got the last three outs on four pitches as the Blue Jays won 10-0. The Blue Jays didn't need the history to win big, closing out a 10-0 shutout that buried a Giants lineup already fading in the NL West race.
The more interesting story here isn't the near-miss, it's the timing. This came one night before an off-day and roughly three weeks before the August 3 trade deadline, the exact stretch where one dominant start can either cement a starter's trade value or talk a front office out of selling him. Cease just made that decision harder, and more expensive, for whoever is on the other end of a phone call.