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CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Slade Cecconi lost his bid for Cleveland baseball history in the eighth inning Monday after not allowing a hit through seven scoreless frames against the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field. <\/p>\n
Michael Massey lined a 2-1 fastball into left center field on Cecconi\u2019s 95th pitch of the night. The outing represented Cecconi\u2019s longest career no-hit bid.<\/p>\n
It marked the second time this season a Guardians pitcher completed at least seven hitless innings, joining Gavin Williams on Aug. 6 against the Mets at Citi Field. <\/p>\n
Cecconi was looking for the first Cleveland no-hitter since Len Barker\u2019s perfect game on May 15, 1981, a span of 44 years and three months, or 16,187 days. That marks the longest current no-hitter drought in the majors. <\/p>\n Toronto has the second-longest dry spell with Dave Stieb\u2019s gem on Sept. 2 1990 at Cleveland\u2019s Municipal Stadium.<\/p>\n Cecconi was helped by some outstanding defense early. Brayan Rocchio robbed Salvador Perez of a hit with a fine stop on a ground ball up the middle in the second that left the bat at 108 mph. Daniel Schneemann made a fine running catch in the left center field gap on a drive off the bat of Maikel Garcia to end the third. <\/p>\n Cleveland scored six runs in the fourth inning and built a 10-0 lead before Cecconi went out to start the eighth.<\/p>\n He was attempting to complete the 15th no-hitter in franchise history \u2014 and the first in the big leagues this season. Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto lost a no-hit bid with one out remaining in the ninth inning on Saturday when Jackson Holliday hit a solo home run. The game then snowballed into a 4-3 walk-off loss for the Dodgers. <\/p>\n Cleveland came close to ending its no-hitter drought last month when Williams held the Mets without a hit through 8 1\/3 innings before surrendering a solo home run to Juan Soto in the ninth.<\/p>\n The following Cleveland pitchers have taken no-hit bids into the ninth inning since Barker\u2019s perfect game:<\/p>\n The club has had three combined no-hit bids broken up in the ninth.<\/p>\n Below is a list of Cleveland\u2019s 14 no-hitters.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cleveland.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2014 Slade Cecconi lost his bid for Cleveland baseball history in the eighth inning Monday after not allowing a hit through seven scoreless frames against the Kansas City Royals at Progressive Field. Michael Massey lined a 2-1 fastball into left center field on Cecconi\u2019s 95th pitch of the night. The outing represented Cecconi\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2008249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2008249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2008249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2008249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2008249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2008249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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