CLEVELAND, Ohio — The scene at Progressive Field Monday night was all too familiar for Cleveland baseball fans. A promising young pitcher, Slade Cecconi, carried a no-hitter into the eighth inning against Kansas City, only to watch it evaporate on Michael Massey’s clean single to center field. Another close call. Another chapter in the franchise’s 44-year no-hitter drought – the longest active streak in Major League Baseball.

“Forty-four years and three months worth of frustration. Just shy of 17,000 days since Len Barker’s perfect game. The streak continues,” lamented Joe Noga on the Cleveland Baseball Talk Podcast , perfectly capturing the collective sigh of a fanbase that has witnessed countless near-misses since Barker’s perfect game on May 15, 1981.

What makes this drought particu

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