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.
