Jul 28, 2025, 11:11 PM ET<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres<\/a> right-hander Dylan Cease<\/a> was hit in the back of the head by a one-hopper by Francisco Lindor<\/a> of the New York Mets<\/a> on Monday night and remained in the game.<\/p>\n The scary moment happened with one out in the third inning. As the ball caromed into foul territory for a double, Cease sat on the mound with his right hand on his head.<\/p>\n Cease was checked by trainers, manager Mike Shildt and pitching coach Ruben Niebla. After throwing some warmup pitches, he stayed in the game.<\/p>\n Cease struck out Juan Soto<\/a> and Mets manager Carlos Mendoza was ejected for arguing. Cease then struck out Pete Alonso<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Whether it’s Soto or anybody on our roster, I’ve got to go out there and protect them,” Mendoza said.<\/p>\n The Mets led 1-0 at the time. The Padres would go on to rally for a 7-6 walk-off victory<\/a> on El\u00edas D\u00edaz<\/a>‘s two-out single in the ninth, which ended New York’s seven-game winning streak.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 28, 2025, 11:11 PM ET SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres right-hander Dylan Cease was hit in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-45193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}