The individual odyssey within a game and within a season has been minimized. It is often the right thing. It just is far less interesting and, thus, worse for the game.
It was the right thing, for both Javier and the Astros, who completed a combined no-hitter.
Those two victories, which gave Houston a 3-2 series lead and moved it to the brink of winning the 118th World Series, exemplify an overarching problem for central baseball. So much that is efficient and smart these days can rob pitchers of the chance for individual accomplishments — the kind that might draw more than a local fan base to care. I have witnessed three Javier starts in person this year.
There has been just one solo no-hitter, by the Angels’ Reid Detmers, and three combined, the two by the Astros and one by the Mets versus the Phillies on April 29. Even for Mets fans that feels like the uninteresting stepchild of Johan Santana’s solo effort in 2012. Yes, of course, that was the first in franchise history. But imagine if the first had been a tag team no-hitter. Meh.
Because the hitter due up, Nick Castellanos, had smoked the ball in his previous at-bat against Verlander. And because the Astros’ bullpen has been the biggest force of this postseason . Just to revisit why the no-hitter was so anticlimactic, there were 152 times this year in which three different relievers threw at least three innings of no-hit relief, including Game 4. Once relievers come in, we are now conditioned that hitters are about to be overwhelmed.
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