CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cleveland Guardians rookie Parker Messick has a no-hitter through eight innings against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old left-hander has walked two and matched a career high with nine strikeouts while throwing 106 pitches, 73 for strikes. The Guardians lead 4-0 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Messick 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
Eight innings marks the longest outing of Messick’s career. He pitched seven shutout innings against Tampa Bay last season.<\/p>\n
Cleveland has the majors\u2019 longest current gap between no-hitters. The team\u2019s most recent one was Len Barker\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Carrasco came within one strike of a no-hitter when Rays left fielder Joey Butler lined a slider on an 0-2 count that just eluded the glove of leaping Cleveland second baseman Jason Kipnis.<\/p>\n
Juan Soto broke up Williams\u2019 no-hit bid with a home run to center.<\/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
Ram\u00edrez also made a terrific grab in foul territory to retire Samuel Basallo leading off the eighth.<\/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
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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Cleveland Guardians rookie Parker Messick has a no-hitter through eight innings against the Baltimore Orioles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,2224,583,2078,42301,85800,7327,85801,865,134,45896,2170,4,125,9500,9501,9496,82611,9497,39139,83365,7326,770,2081,5694],"class_list":{"0":"post-677277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-carlos-carrasco","13":"tag-coby-mayo","14":"tag-gavin-williams","15":"tag-george-valera","16":"tag-guardians-orioles-messick-nohitter","17":"tag-jason-kipnis","18":"tag-joey-butler","19":"tag-jose-ramirez","20":"tag-juan-soto","21":"tag-len-barker","22":"tag-leody-taveras","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-orioles","25":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","26":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","27":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","28":"tag-product-31999-ap-online-baseball-news","29":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","30":"tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","31":"tag-product-40806-ap-ohio-sports-only","32":"tag-samuel-basallo","33":"tag-shota-imanaga","34":"tag-steven-kwan","35":"tag-taylor-ward"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677277","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=677277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}