SAN DIEGO – Before Sunday’s game, Blue Jays pitching coach Pete Walker grabbed a dry-erase marker and got to work on a whiteboard in the visiting clubhouse at Petco Park.

Walker drew a cat in a top hat, some oysters and a pitching mound. At the bottom of the whiteboard, he wrote a message announcing Dylan Cease as the American League’s starting pitcher in Tuesday’s All-Star Game. And before the final game of the first half of the season, manager John Schneider flipped the whiteboard toward Cease and his teammates to reveal the news.

“It's pretty surreal,” Cease said. “I didn't know what to say. Everyone was saying ‘speech,’ and I'm like, I don't know- I was pretty speechless. It's just a really cool experience.”

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