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Dylan Cease tells us everything about his no hitter against the Nationals

Dylan Cease became the second pitcher in Padres history to throw a no hitter after doing so against the Nationals in Washington, DC. What were the conversations like with manager Mike Shildt to let him stay in the game? How does it feel just 24 hours later? Dylan Cease joined Tony and Chris for Friar Friday!

Duration:: 8m
Broadcast on:: 26 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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I went to sleep late last night, I've watched a lot of highlights and a lot of fun stuff pertaining to yesterday. It's still just so surreal to watch. But yeah, I'm a little tired today, but you know, I'm in a good mood, I must say. I can imagine. Well, let's take us down into yesterday's start. I mean, over the last three, we could have very well had the same conversation the previous two starts. But at what point in yesterday's ballgame, did you start to feel like this could be something that, you know, could happen? I think it gets, I think it gets very serious after seven. Before that, it's sort of like so much has to go right that I really don't worry about it too much. You know, at that point, it's like, I'm just going to attack the zone and, you know, if they couldn't play and they get a hit, then that's just part of the game. But, you know, I feel like after the seven, it kind of turns into, you know, we're really trying to not give up a hit. So it's been my strategy for my last two attempts at least. We're talking to Dylan Sees, fresh off of a no hitter yesterday against the Nationals. And Dylan, there was a moment yesterday where I thought Mike Schilt was actually going to take you out of the game, but you seemingly talked him into letting you go back out there. Can you let us in on what you, what you said to him to let him keep you out there? Yeah, I said, I said, I feel strong, throwing a hundred, we got, we got the six days rest coming up, I've thrown, I did 113 earlier in the year. And then I just stuff like that where I was trying to build a case and, and then Joe and crony were there and they kind of backs me up. So I think, I think collectively we're all able to talk him into it and thankfully he'll let me go back out there. And so you have a relatively quick eighth inning. I mean, how good were you feeling going into that ninth inning in terms of stamina, mental, where were you at in terms of how you felt? Oh, I felt great. You know, at that point it was just is testing to be on my side or not. But I feel like I had, you know, I was in a very good position to do it. We're talking to Dylan Sees here and going back to the beginning of the game, Dylan, the rain delay kind of threw everything off a little bit. But there were questions as to whether or not you were even going to come out and start the game after that hour plus delay you did. And it was a very good decision. What were you thinking during that rain delay? Um, I don't know if I was thinking too much rather than kind of focused on how my body felt and like making sure I was moving every so on and so on and not going 20 or 30 minutes where I was just being sedentary. So my main focus turned to basically either stretching or bike or light, like toss. And then once we found out kind of when the tarp was going to be moved and all that, I was able to sort of formulate a plan as to when I wanted to get off the indoor mountain and throw maybe 20 pitches or so and just kind of get everything ramped up to high speed again. Dylan C's joins us here on going and Chris and Dylan, as I mentioned over the last three starts, you have been just phenomenal as it pertains to, you know, be throwing the ball off the bump. You went through a little bit of a rough patch there and it never seemed like you were throwing the ball all that bad. Sometimes it was just, you know, one, one or two bad pitches in an outing. But what has happened in these last three starts that has you so dialed in right now? Yeah. I think the biggest thing was just the mechanical change I made where I'm keeping my glove close to my body. And for whatever reason, I think it's harder for the batters to pick it up and it's making me think up to where I'm throwing harder and my stuff's sharp. And for the most part, I'm executing better, just in general. So, you know, it's kind of those things where I was just, sort of feel like for like two months, I was just trying to find, you know, find it and then finally we got it sinking up and right now the results have been really good. They've been fantastic so far and as we're moving into the second half of the season Dylan, obviously you guys aren't at 100% to this point. I mean, how important is it for this staff to, I don't know, necessarily be able to go this like they have the last couple times around, but how important is it for you guys to continue to throw the ball as well as you guys have? Oh, it's extremely important, you know, I mean, it pretty much sets the tone. Do you have a series where your starters go deep and they dominate? It really is, you know, sets the tone, creates momentum and kind of creates an atmosphere, I feel like, to where, you know, everybody's just a little more locked in because they know it's within reach whereas, you know, maybe if you get down early and you get down five runs early, then it's, you know, you're kind of fighting to be back against the wall. So, I mean, starting pitchers, we know that our job is to take the ball and go as deep and effective as we can. Talking to Dylan Cease here on 97-3, the fan, and you just said you were making adjustments, you're holding your glove closer to you. I never really thought about like making adjustments during the season. I just think of a pitcher being able to just pitch, but how often are you making adjustments or is it just once you find something you stick with it and hope it works forever? It's always changing in my experience. You can do one cue and it'll work and then all of a sudden, for whatever reason, you know, something else has to be done, but I mean, hopefully this one's the one that lasts the rest of my career, but I've played long enough to know that's not usually how it works. But no, I mean, I feel like every, in between every starts, I'm working on something, you know, it could be something as simple as my previous start. I feel like I didn't get down the mound as well as I'd like to. So then I go and kind of work in the lower half or, you know, maybe I feel like I was a little open or this or that or mods or into the target, you know. I was trying to find little things to kind of refocus on. Dylan, it certainly seems like you and Louise Cabosano have been on the same page in these last three. Is there something, is there something to the fact that you guys seemingly are on the same page? You don't see too much shaking off while you've been on the mound over these last couple? Yeah, I think, I mean, I think he does a ton of work, ton of prep work. And you know, I think, I think as a whole, the staff has a really good idea of the best way to attack hitters. So when you kind of prepare and you know what you want to do, it just, it turns into, you know, going out and taking action and doing it. We're talking to Dylan Sees here and you talk with our guy, Sammy Lev yesterday after the game on the Padres post game show and you said that you, after it happened, you let out a primal yell and then you yelled yes 50 times. I just want to go back to that moment. Is it like a moment that you can actually remember or did you kind of black out a little bit? No, I can remember it is just the, you know, the middle of that pile, everyone's jumping and yeah, it was just screaming yes, it was really hilarious. It was, I don't know if it was just because the moment was so big and just some, so happy in that moment. But I just seen everyone smiling and screaming and yelling and it was, yeah, something I'll never forget. Well, Dylan, certainly it was a, you gave a lot of San Diego's some memories that they'll never forget and congratulations on the no hitter yesterday, continued health and success moving forward because you certainly have a thrown the ball extremely well here as of late. Keep rolling man. Oh, thank you.