CLEVELAND (AP) — Slade Cecconi didn't need anyone in Cleveland's dugout to tell him he was throwing a no-hitter. He found out on his own.

Stealing a glance at Progressive Field's giant scoreboard in the fourth inning, Cecconi noticed something unusual.

“I was like, huh, a lot of zeros up there on our side,” he said.

He kept it like that for a while.

Cecconi took a no-hitter into the eighth before Kansas City's Micheal Massey hit a leadoff single to spoil the right-hander's bid to throw the majors’ first no-hitter this season and finally end Cleveland’s four-plus-decades-long drought without a no-hitter.

But that hardly mattered as the Guardians rolled to their fourth straight win, 10-2 to jump the Royals in the standings.

Leaning on a slow curve ball manager Stephen Vogt said had sur

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