{"id":677266,"date":"2026-04-17T00:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:06:46","slug":"guardians-rookie-parker-messick-has-no-hitter-through-7-innings-against-orioles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/677266\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardians rookie Parker Messick has no-hitter through 7 innings against Orioles"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014 Cleveland Guardians rookie Parker Messick has a no-hitter through seven innings against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old has thrown 90 pitches, 63 strikes for strikes, and struck out eight with two walks Thursday night. The Guardians lead 4-0.<\/p>\n

Messick has faced one batter more than the minimum. He walked leadoff hitter Taylor Ward before retiring the next 15 batters. Ward hit a deep flyball to center field in the third inning that Steven Kwan caught at the wall, and Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez made a nice stop on a grounder by Coby Mayo deep in the hole at third to end the fifth.<\/p>\n

Messick walked Leody Taveras leading off the sixth, but Ward grounded into a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n

The left-hander is attempting to throw the first no-hitter in the majors since Sept. 4, 2024, when Shota Imanaga and two Chicago Cubs relievers combined to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 12-0.<\/p>\n

Messick is making his 11th career start. He was the 54th overall pick in the 2022 amateur draft out of Florida State and made his big league debut last year.<\/p>\n

Messick came into the game with a 5-1 career mark and a 2.04 ERA. He was 2-0 with a 0.51 ERA in his first three starts this season.<\/p>\n

\"Cleveland<\/p>\n

Cleveland Guardians center fielder Steven Kwan catches a fly ball for an out on a ball hit by Baltimore Orioles’ Taylor Ward in the third inning of a baseball game in Cleveland, Thursday, April 16, 2026. Credit: AP\/Sue Ogrocki<\/p>\n

The Guardians have backed up Messick with Ram\u00edrez’s two-run homer in the first and RBI singles by Kwan in the fifth and George Valera in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has the majors’ longest current gap between no-hitters. The team’s last one was Len Barker’s perfect game on May 15, 1981, against the Toronto Blue Jays. <\/p>\n

Carlos Carrasco went 8 2\/3 innings against Tampa Bay on July 1, 2015, and Gavin Williams had a no-hitter for 8 1\/3 innings last season on Aug. 6 against the New York Mets. Juan Soto broke up Williams’ no-hit bid with a home run to center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Cleveland Guardians rookie Parker Messick has a no-hitter through seven innings against the Baltimore Orioles. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[47,5,135,51,2565,538,4,2524],"class_list":{"0":"post-677266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baltimore-orioles","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cleveland","11":"tag-cleveland-guardians","12":"tag-clevelandguardians","13":"tag-guardians","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116417136108810074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}