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ATLANTA — All three games in the Astros-Braves series followed a familiar script: The Braves have a lead, then the Astros mount a comeback and steal a victory.

All good teams are built on a foundation of blue-chip talent. The great ones usually benefit from some pleasant surprises. We saw that with the Astros (Framber Valdez, Cristian Javier, etc.). We’ve seen it with the Dodgers (Justin Turner, Max Muncy, etc). We saw it with the last Phillies team…

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Houston and Dusty Baker have won their title, thoroughly and convincingly.

Last night, in the Astros’ 5–0 win over the Phillies in Game 4, a team had no hits in a World Series game for just the second time in history. Except, it didn’t feel like history, at least not in the type of history that will go down in World…

Astros right-hander Cristian Javier and three other pitchers led Houston to a series-tying win with the second no-hitter in World Series history.

Cristian Javier’s fastball was too much to handle for the Phillies.

In more ways than one, Houston’s Game 4 starter turned back the clock and made history Wednesday behind the ride of an unhittable fastball.

Christian Vázquez juggled the preferences and personalities of four pitchers to help Houston hurl just the second no-hitter in World Series history.

It was the first World Series no-hitter since 1956

Houston pulled off the improbable, throwing the second no-hitter in World Series history.