according to the Elias Sports Bureau<\/a>. The other? Cincinnati Reds right-hander Bumpus Jones in 1892.<\/p>\n2B: Regarding the bats, Houston had two home runs, with designated hitter Yordan \u00c1lvarez hitting a solo homer in the top of the fourth and first baseman Christian Walker blasting a three-run homer in the top of the seventh.<\/p>\n
3: The number of pitchers the Astros used: Tatsuya Imai (six innings), Steven Okert (one inning) and Santa (two innings).<\/p>\n
4A: Amazingly, Houston’s pitching staff recorded just four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
4B: The Astros are now on a four-game winning streak, including two shutouts (9-0 win over the Rangers and a 3-0 victory against the Chicago Cubs).<\/p>\n
5A: This is the fifth combined no-hitter in Astros’ history, with the previous one coming against the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 4 of the 2022 World Series; Houston also had a team no-hitter against the New York Yankees in June of that season.<\/p>\n
5B: While the Astros surrendered no hits, they did give up five walks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
6: In pitching six innings, Imai had the longest start of his MLB career (Monday night was the right-hander’s sixth start).<\/p>\n
7: Okert’s one inning of relief marked the seventh time in his last eight appearances that he pitched a scoreless inning.<\/p>\n
9: Houston put nine runs on the board.<\/p>\n
18: In all, this is the 18th no-hitter in Astros’ history, with Ronel Blanco’s no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays on April 1, 2024 being their last one.<\/p>\n
136: The number of pitches thrown by Houston pitchers.<\/p>\n
628: The number of days between the Astros’ combined no-hitter and the last no-hitter in MLB (a combined no-hitter by the Cubs on Sept, 4, 2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It happens every once in a while, and it happened in Arlington, Texas on Monday night, as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2389],"tags":[32172,42,5,139,54,3211,19,4,89026,9278,4658,69],"class_list":["post-709317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-astros","tag-alimber-santa","tag-astros","tag-baseball","tag-houston","tag-houston-astros","tag-houstonastros","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-houston-astros-vs-texas-rangers-05-25-2026","tag-steven-okert","tag-tatsuya-imai","tag-texas-rangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116641478989525228","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}