Astros 5, Phillies 0: Combined No-Hitter in World Series Game 4

Dominican righthander Cristian Javier led the first combined no-hitter in World Series history for the Houston Astros on Wednesday to tie the Major League champion title 2-2 to the Phillies 0-5 out of Philadelphia defeat.

Prior to this no-hit game, Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game of the World Series on October 8, 1956, in Game 3 of that year’s final against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

With this victory for MLB history, the Astros, who will play its fifth game next Thursday in Philadelphia, ensured that the Fall Classic returns to Houston, where the sixth game and -if necessary- the seventh game will be played.

Javier (2-0) showed the excellence of his work in each of the pitches he made, as needed by the Astros, to completely take out the powerful Philadelphia attack.

The 25-year-old righthander silenced fans at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia by giving up just two walks in the six innings he was on the mound.

In all, de Quisqueyan, who threw 63 of the 97 pitches he threw in the strike zone, achieved 50% of his outs through strikeouts, retiring 9 of the 18 batters he retired in the game.

After the entry of Javier, who was also part of a combined no-hitter in the regular series against the Yankees, his compatriot Bryan Abreu took the ball, who worked the seventh inning with no liberties, striking out the three men he faced had himself.

Abreu gave way to Rafael Montero, also from Quito, who extended the Phillies drought after completing a hit-free chapter and a strikeout.

Ryan Pressly then took the ball and walked in the ninth inning to complete the historic job for the Houston team.

Alex Bregman drove in two runs and was the key man on offense for Houston.

Righthander Aaron Nola (2-2) again fell short against the Astros, hitting only four innings for three runs and four strikeouts.

On his departure from the game, Nola left the responsibility to Venezuelan José Alvarado, who had maintained great dominance this “postseason” but failed to avoid the damage of the Houston bats, who scored two rounds in an episode where he took two eliminated rivals.

The batters of the Phillies, who hit five homeruns in the third game, were eliminated completely, with Kyle Schwarber, Brandon Marsh and Bryce Harper reaching base with balls.

The offense of Astros, who had just been eliminated in the third game of the series, was discovered on Wednesday by scoring five runs in the fifth chapter of the game.

The first round of those led by Dusty Barker came thanks to Alvarado, who came to pitch for Nola, with the bases loaded with no outs, and hit Cuban Yordan Álvarez, enabling Chas McCormick to score the first round of the ticket and the game.

After Alvarado’s pitch, Bregman sent a double to the rightfield sideline that led to the register of Venezuelan José Altuve and Dominican Jeremy Peña.

Kyle Tucker hit a sacrifice fly into midfield to get Álvarez to the buzzer and Bregman to third base, where he scored the Astros’ fifth run on a grounder by Yuli Gurriel.

With the Astros, Altuve had one basehit – his 100th career postseason hit – in five at bats and scored a run, Peña had scored two hits and one run in five at bats, and Álvarez had scored one run and one RBI on a hit a hit four times with the wood.

Gurriel had two hits, with one RBI, in four at bats and Puerto Rican Christian Vázquez had one hit in three visits to the plate.

For the Phillies, Dominican Jean Segura went blank in three at bats.