{"id":651670,"date":"2026-03-30T02:25:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651670\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T02:25:54","slug":"dylan-cease-wows-in-first-start-with-toronto-blue-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/651670\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Cease wows in first start with Toronto Blue Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dylan Cease<\/a> turned in an impressive first outing as a Toronto Blue Jay Saturday afternoon, holding the Athletics<\/a> to one run in 5.1 innings. <\/p>\n

He departed with 12 strikeouts, three hits allowed and two walks while throwing 90 pitches, 61 of them strikes. It was the most strikeouts by a Blue Jays starter in his first outing with the team, passing David Price\u2019s 11 Ks from his Jays debut in 2015.<\/p>\n

Cease also struck out seven batters in a row during Saturday\u2019s start, matching Alek Manoah<\/a> from 2022 for the club record for consecutive punchouts by a pitcher.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a blast,\u201d Cease said to reporters after the game. \u201cThe minute I walked out, there was cheering and they were being extremely supportive. That was really cool. It\u2019s just an electric atmosphere. I think that really does make a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jays and A\u2019s sat tied 1-1 at the time of Cease\u2019s removal in the sixth before Toronto came back from a four-run deficit to win 8-7 in extra innings.<\/p>\n

Cease\u2019s start Saturday was the official beginning of his seven-year, $210 million deal, signed as the largest free agent deal in Blue Jays history. He spent last season with the San Diego Padres<\/a> and had a 4.55 ERA in 32 starts with 215 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

Cease was fourth in Cy Young voting the year before and second in 2022 while with the Chicago White Sox<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The 30-year-old right-hander had a 0.93 ERA in three spring training starts this year, allowing just one run over 9.2 innings with 12 strikeouts. <\/p>\n

Cease is in his eighth MLB season after being selected in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB Draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Cease turned in an impressive first outing as a Toronto Blue Jay Saturday afternoon, holding the Athletics…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2391],"tags":[30173,537,5,62437,4,3226,46737],"class_list":{"0":"post-651670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-dylan-cease-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-829000","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-athletics","14":"tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116315762431093969","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}