Messick, 25, was bidding to complete the first no-hitter in the majors since Sept. 4, 2024, when Shota Imanaga<\/a> and two Chicago Cubs<\/a> relievers combined to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> 12-0 at Wrigley Field.<\/p>\n Making his 11th major league start, Messick (3-0) faced one batter more than the minimum through eight innings before Leody Taveras<\/a> led off the ninth with a grounder that just eluded diving second baseman Juan Brito<\/a> and went into right field for a single.<\/p>\n Blaze Alexander<\/a> followed with a line-drive single to center before the rookie left-hander was removed to a standing ovation from the crowd of 14,748.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Taylor Ward<\/a>‘s single off closer Cade Smith<\/a> loaded the bases, and Gunnar Henderson<\/a>‘s sacrifice fly drove in Taveras. Pete Alonso<\/a> hit an RBI double that put runners at second and third with one out.<\/p>\n Smith then retired pinch-hitter Colton Cowser<\/a> on a fly to center and Samuel Basallo<\/a> on a grounder for his fourth save.<\/p>\n Messick walked two and equaled a career best with nine strikeouts. He was charged with two runs in eight-plus innings, his longest outing in the majors. He threw 112 pitches, 78 for strikes.<\/p>\n Cleveland has the 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<\/a>, a span of 7,055 days that represents the fourth-longest no-hitter drought in MLB history.<\/p>\n Thursday marked the franchise’s sixth straight failed no-hit bid after reaching the ninth inning, tied for the second-longest streak by a team in the Expansion Era (since 1961), trailing only the Boston Red Sox’s nine straight between Dave Morehead’s no-hitter in 1965 and Hideo Nomo’s no-hitter in 2001.<\/p>\n Chase DeLauter<\/a> walked in the first and Ram\u00edrez drove a first-pitch fastball from Shane Baz<\/a> (0-2) into the right-center stands to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n Steven Kwan<\/a> hit an RBI single in the fifth and George Valera<\/a> added a run-scoring single in the sixth.<\/p>\n Information from The Associated Press and ESPN Research was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 16, 2026, 09:32 PM ET CLEVELAND — Parker Messick took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, Jose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-677330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116417606424648928","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677330","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=677330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/mlb_power_rankings_week3_1296x1296.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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