NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan Cease was dominant for six innings. And then moments later, he was done for the night.
Soon after losing a no-hit bid in the seventh, the San Diego Padres pitcher left his start against the New York Yankees with a cramp in his right forearm Wednesday.
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San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, left, talks to pitcher Dylan Cease before Cease leaves during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
A trainer checks on San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
“It basically made my hand close tight for a couple of seconds. I don’t think it’s anything too serious,” Cease said after the Yankees rallied for a 4-3 victory in 10 innings. “I honestly was going to throw some warmup pitches and see, but I think the smart thing was to do what we did there.”
Cody Bellinger homered into the second deck in right field on an 0-2 fastball clocked at 98 mph with one out in the seventh for New York's first hit.
Cease then struck out Anthony Volpe and got ahead 1-2 in the count against Jasson Domínguez before manager Mike Shildt and a Padres athletic trainer went to the Yankee Stadium mound.
“To his credit, he said something about it,” Shildt said. “Said he could have kept going but it didn’t make sense at the moment, so we’ll evaluate and see what happens.”
Cease nodded his head repeatedly during the discussion on the mound and ultimately walked off the field with the trainer and into the dugout.
“We did all the testing. Nothing hurts or anything. It was just my hand locked up for a couple seconds and let go,” Cease said. “I obviously would have liked to have kept going, but I think it was the right call.”
Jason Adam was given all the time he needed to warm up, and was credited with the strikeout when Domínguez went down looking to end the inning.
After the game, Shildt said Cease exited with a cramp in his right forearm.
“I don’t have any worry about my arm, to be honest. I guess you never know, but I’m not in any pain or anything. I’m really not worried about it," Cease said. “It was just kind of like a weird thing.”
Cease, who pitched the second no-hitter in San Diego history last July at Washington, threw 59 of his 89 pitches for strikes and whiffed star slugger Aaron Judge all three times they squared off.
The right-hander struck out a season-best nine and walked two in a season-high 6 2/3 innings. Another batter reached on catcher's interference.
“Legitimate no-hit stuff,” Shildt said. “It was going to be a read-it-and-react situation.”
Cease is 1-2 with a 4.91 ERA in eight starts this season. He left with the score tied 1-all.
“I’ve been working on some mechanical stuff and it hadn’t been clicking," Cease said. “Then today it finally clicked and got to the point where I was able to kind of just focus on my target and throw it. I’ve been searching for that for a while now, so it definitely feels good to be back closer to what I should be.”
Cease was acquired from the Chicago White Sox for a package of four players in a March 2024 trade. He finished second in the 2022 AL Cy Young Award balloting and fourth in NL voting last year after going 14-11 with a 3.47 ERA in 33 starts during his first season with the Padres.
There have been 12 no-hitters pitched at Yankee Stadium, including Don Larsen's perfect game for New York in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Eight no-hitters have been thrown against the Yankees — six in New York. Four of those came since the team began playing at Yankee Stadium in 1923. The most recent was a combined effort by Houston pitchers Cristian Javier, Héctor Neris and Ryan Pressly on June 25, 2022.
AP freelance writer Larry Fleisher contributed to this report.
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San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, left, talks to pitcher Dylan Cease before Cease leaves during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
A trainer checks on San Diego Padres pitcher Dylan Cease during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
San Diego Padres' Dylan Cease pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the New York Yankees Wednesday, May 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.'s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations, as the U.S. further retreats from global cooperation.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order suspending U.S. support for 66 organizations, agencies, and commissions, following his administration’s review of participation in and funding for all international organizations, including those affiliated with the United Nations, according to a White House release.
Most of the targets are U.N.-related agencies, commissions and advisory panels that focus on climate, labor, migration and other issues the Trump administration has categorized as catering to diversity and “woke” initiatives. Other non-U.N. organizations on the list include the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and Global Counterterrorism Forum.
“The Trump Administration has found these institutions to be redundant in their scope, mismanaged, unnecessary, wasteful, poorly run, captured by the interests of actors advancing their own agendas contrary to our own, or a threat to our nation’s sovereignty, freedoms, and general prosperity,” the State Department said in a statement.
Trump's decision to withdraw from organizations that foster cooperation among nations to address global challenges comes as his administration has launched military efforts or issued threats that have rattled allies and adversaries alike, including capturing autocratic Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and indicating an intention to take over Greenland.
The administration previously suspended support from agencies like the World Health Organization, the U.N. for Palestinian refugees known as UNRWA, the U.N. Human Rights Council and the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO as it has taken a larger, a-la-carte approach to paying its dues to the world body, picking which operations and agencies they believe align with Trump’s agenda and those which no longer serve U.S. interests.
“I think what we’re seeing is the crystallization of the U.S. approach to multilateralism, which is ‘my way or the highway,’” said Daniel Forti, head of U.N. affairs at the International Crisis Group. “It's a very clear vision of wanting international cooperation on Washington’s own terms.”
It has marked a major shift from how previous administrations — both Republican and Democratic — have dealt with the U.N., and it has forced the world body, already undergoing its own internal reckoning, to respond with a series of staffing and program cuts.
Many independent nongovernmental agencies — some that work with the United Nations — have cited many project closures because of the U.S. administration’s decision last year to slash foreign assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.
Despite the massive shift, the U.S. officials, including Trump himself, say they have seen the potential of the U.N. and want to instead focus taxpayer money on expanding American influence in many of the standard-setting U.N. initiatives where there is competition with China, like the International Telecommunications Union, the International Maritime Organization and the International Labor Organization.
The withdrawal from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC, is the latest effort by Trump and his allies to distance the U.S. from international organizations focused on climate and addressing climate change.
UNFCC, the 1992 agreement between 198 countries to financially support climate change activities in developing countries, is the underlying treaty for the landmark Paris climate agreement. Trump — who calls climate change a hoax — withdrew from that agreement soon after reclaiming the White House.
Gina McCarthy, former White House National Climate Adviser, called the move “shortsighted, embarrassing, and a foolish decision.”
“As the only country in the world not a part of the UNFCCC treaty, the Trump administration is throwing away decades of U.S. climate change leadership and global collaboration,” McCarthy, who co-chairs America Is All In, a coalition of climate-concerned U.S. states and cities, said in a statement. “This Administration is forfeiting our country’s ability to influence trillions of dollars in investments, policies, and decisions that would have advanced our economy and protected us from costly disasters wreaking havoc on our country.”
Mainstream scientists say climate change is behind increasing instances of deadly and costly extreme weather, including flooding, droughts, wildfires, intense rainfall events and dangerous heat.
The U.S. withdrawal could hinder global efforts to curb greenhouse gases because it “gives other nations the excuse to delay their own actions and commitments,” said Stanford University climate scientist Rob Jackson, who chairs the Global Carbon Project, a group of scientists that tracks countries’ carbon dioxide emissions.
It will also be difficult to achieve meaningful progress on climate change without cooperation from the U.S., one of the world’s largest emitters and economies, experts said.
The U.N.'s population agency, which provides sexual and reproductive health across the world, has long been a lightning rod for Republican opposition and Trump himself cut funding for the agency during his first term in office. He and other GOP officials have accused the agency of participating in “coercive abortion practices” in countries like China.
When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, he restored funding for the agency. A State Department review conducted the following year found no evidence to support GOP claims.
Other organizations and agencies that the U.S. will quit include the Carbon Free Energy Compact, the United Nations University, the International Cotton Advisory Committee, the International Tropical Timber Organization, the Partnership for Atlantic Cooperation, the Pan-American Institute for Geography and History, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies and the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.
The State Department said additional reviews are ongoing.
Amiri reported from the United Nations. Associated Press writer Tammy Webber reported from Fenton, Michigan.
This story has been updated to correct Daniel Forti's title at the International Crisis Group; It is head of U.N. affairs, not senior U.N. analyst.
United States' Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz addresses the Security Council Monday, Jan. 5, 2026 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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