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Dylan Cease Loses No-Hit Bid in the Ninth Inning Against Giants

Heliot Ramos broke up the bid with a line-drive single to center field with the Blue Jays one out away.

Wide baseball illustration showing a Blue Jays pitcher reacting on the mound after a ninth-inning no-hit bid is broken up, with a Giants runner heading to first base under stadium lights.
Wide baseball illustration showing a Blue Jays pi…      Dylan Cease No Hitter Broken Up    Free News Press Art Department
By Free News Press Editorial Team
Published July 9, 2026 at 1:33 AM PDT

Dylan Cease came within one inning of making history Wednesday.

The Blue Jays pitcher carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the San Francisco Giants before Heliot Ramos ended it with a line-drive single to center field, according to ESPN. It would have been the second no-hitter of Cease's career.

Ramos's hit broke up what had been a dominant performance through eight innings. Cease had kept the Giants off the bases before the ninth, putting him on the edge of one of the rarest achievements in baseball.

The loss of the no-hit bid in the final inning placed Cease among a long list of pitchers who have come agonizingly close without finishing the job. A completed no-hitter in the ninth would have cemented the outing as one of the more memorable pitching performances of the 2026 season.

No further details on the final score or Cease's complete line were immediately available.

Chicago White Sox prospect Dylan Cease signs autographs at SoxFest 2019
Chicago White Sox prospect Dylan Cease signs auto…      Dylan Cease    Jmar Gambol: Flickr, Instagram / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)