Dylan Cease keeps putting together a road stretch that belongs in a video game, not a box score.
On Wednesday, the right-hander carved through the Cleveland Guardians for six scoreless innings in an 11-0 Blue Jays win. He gave up four hits, didn’t issue a walk and trimmed his season ERA to 2.25.
The bigger number is the one attached to his last seven road starts: one earned run in 48 2/3 innings, which works out to a 0.18 ERA. According to Sportsnet Stats, that is the lowest ERA over a seven-start road span since 1913.
That kind of run puts Cease in rare air. The only names ahead of him on that list are Bob Gibson, Gaylord Perry and Roger Clemens - three pitchers who made life miserable for hitters in very different eras.
Gibson’s 1968 stretch sits in a class of its own. He posted a 0.28 ERA across seven road starts and finished the season at 1.12 with 13 shutouts and 28 complete games. That came during the famous “Year of the Pitcher,” when MLB hitters combined for a .639 OPS and teams averaged 3.42 runs per game.
Perry’s 1977 run came in a more offense-friendly environment, but it was still elite. His 0.30 ERA stretch arrived in a season when teams averaged 4.47 runs per game and MLB hitters posted a combined .730 OPS.
Then there’s Clemens, who turned in a 0.20 ERA road stretch in 2005 at age 42 and finished the year with a 1.87 ERA. MLB teams averaged 4.59 runs per game that season, with hitters combining for a .749 OPS.
Cease’s numbers are landing in a different offensive climate, but they’re no less absurd. MLB teams are averaging 4.48 runs per game this season and hitters are combining for a .719 OPS.
Even with all that offense around him, Cease’s seven-start road run has been overwhelming enough to stand beside the best stretches in more than a century. If he keeps anywhere near this pace, he’ll be right in the American League Cy Young conversation when the season ends.
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