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World Series Game 4 was unlike any other game in postseason history. It was the third postseason no-hitter, joining Roy Halladay’s in the 2010 NLDS and Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, but the first combined no-no in the playoffs. Despite that fact, though, it had an air of familiarity. Cristian Javier starts, Ryan Pressly pitches last? We’ve seen this movie before.

Very recently, in fact, as Houston, led by Javier, Héctor Neris and Pressly, combined to no-hit the Yankees on June 25. With Wednesday’s 5-0 win over the Phillies to even the World Series at 2-2, the Astros became the first team with two combined no-hitters in a season(including the postseason) — but again, it wasn’t just the feat itself that was amazing, but the specific cast of characters that made it happen.

Watch every out of the Astros’ INCREDIBLE World Series no-no.

Not only did Ryan Pressly close out Houston’s two combined no-hitters this year, but Cristian Javier started both historic games.

There have been more than 300 no-hitters — but only three of them have occurred in the postseason.

Yuli Gurriel stroked a run-scoring single as part of a five-run fifth inning in Game 4, extending his streak of plate appearances without a strikeout this postseason.

Touched when his name was written on cards during the Stand Up 2 Cancer moment during the 2021 All-Star Game, Trey Mancini did the same for a former player during Game 4 of the World Series.

Live coverage from Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia begins at 3 p.m. ET and resumes following the last out of World Series Game 5.

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