Jul 25, 2024, 03:32 PM ETWASHINGTON — Hoping for a chance to stay in the game and pitch the second no-hitter in San Diego Padres history, Dylan Cease received some help from the man who threw the first.Cease was at 94 pitches through seven innings when Padres manager Mike Schildt glanced at Joe Musgrove.”Joe is like, `His stuff is pretty good,'” Shildt recalled. “Well, he’s thrown one. He knows what this looks like. We let him ride.”Editor’s Picks2 RelatedCease needed only nine pitches in the eighth and 11 in the ninth in a 3-0 victory over the Washington Nationals on Thursday that completed a three-game sweep.After falling one out short of a no-hitter two years ago when he gave up a single to current teammate Luis Arráez, Cease retired Ildemaro Vargas and Jacob Young on a groundouts for the first two outs of the ninth, then got CJ Abrams to hit a flyout to right on a 1-0 slider.”My thought was I’m going to throw a slider and I’m going to get it down, and if it’s down he’s either…
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