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Cease combined length, run prevention, and swing-and-miss in a dominant start as Toronto won 5–3 at home.
Dylan Cease pitched 7.0 innings for the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday, allowing 3 hits and 1 earned run while striking out 9 and walking 3. Toronto defeated Tampa Bay 5–3 at Rogers Centre. The start marked a complete control outing: Cease issued nine strikeouts against just three walks, generating swing-and-miss across his stuff while limiting damage on contact.
Tampa Bay's offense managed only three hits across the full seven innings, leaving little room for run support. The lone earned run came with two outs already recorded, a sign of clean pitching when it mattered. Cease's 3 BB total reflects some command variance, but the strikeout-to-walk ratio and innings depth absorbed that noise.
The performance paired length, run prevention, and whiff rate in the same start—a baseline win for a starting pitcher in May, when workload and durability remain as valuable as stuff alone.
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