Since the start of the 2024 season, Dylan Cease has taken the ball every time his turn has come up in the rotation. The rest of the go-tos before Nick Pivetta joined the stable this year — Yu Darvish, Michael King and Joe Musgrove — have cycled off and on and sometimes back off the active roster so much that the workload of an up-and-down arm is second only to Cease’s over the last two years.

This time, Randy Vásquez hopes he’s done enough to stay for good.

“I knew there was going to be an opportunity to come back to the majors, so I never gave up on that,” Vásquez said through interpreter Jorge Merlos. “And luckily I pitched well enough this last time that the team noticed that I could stay up here.”

The Padres certainly noticed six innings of no-walk ball at Coors Field.

Of course, t

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