{"id":243677,"date":"2026-05-26T10:02:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243677\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T10:02:30","slug":"three-astros-pitchers-combine-for-first-mlb-no-hitter-since-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/243677\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Astros pitchers combine for first MLB no-hitter since 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Houston Astros right-hander Tatsuya Imai and relievers Steven Okert and Alimber Santa combined to throw a no-hitter in a 9-0 win over the Texas Rangers on Monday night.<\/p>\n

It was the first no-hitter in the major leagues since Shota Imanaga and two Chicago Cubs relievers combined for a 12-0 win over Pittsburgh on Sept. 4, 2024. No pitcher has tossed a complete-game no-hitter since Blake Snell for the San Francisco Giants against Cincinnati on Aug. 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

Imai went six innings in the 17th regular-season no-hitter in Astros history and fourth that was a combined effort. Houston also threw a no-hitter in the 2022 World Series when four pitchers combined against Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

Houston Astros pitcher Alimber Santa, left, reacts with catcher Christian V\u00e1zquez after completing their team\u2019s combine no-hitter win over the Texas Rangers during a baseball game Monday, May 25, 2026, in Arlington, Texas. AP Photo\/Julio Cortez<\/p>\n

Okert worked the seventh after Imai got 16 outs over the last 16 batters he faced. He walked three of his first four batters but benefited from a double play in the first inning before settling into a groove.<\/p>\n

Santa made his big league debut in the eighth and retired all six batters he faced. His 24th pitch was a called third strike against Brandon Nimmo that ended it after an ABS challenge by the batter was confirmed a strike.<\/p>\n

Three Astros pitchers combined for no-hitter against Rangers. AP Photo\/Julio Cortez<\/p>\n

The Rangers were held without a hit for the sixth time, the first since Corey Kluber threw a no-hitter against them for the New York Yankees on May 19, 2021.<\/p>\n

Imai\u2019s fourth walk of the night was to Nimmo leading off the fourth inning, but Ezequiel Duran then grounded into a double play.<\/p>\n

Imai threw 57 of his 97 pitches for strikes. He struck out two.<\/p>\n

Tatsuya Imai and two other Astros pitchers combined for a no-hitter against the Rangers. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old Imai is in his first big league season after coming over from Japan. He was 1-2 with an 8.31 ERA in his first five starts for the Astros.<\/p>\n

Imai joined the Astros in January after agreeing\u00a0to a $54 million, three-year contract.<\/a>\u00a0He was a three-time All-Star during eight seasons in Japan, and went 10-5 with a 1.92 ERA last season for the Pacific League\u2019s Seibu Lions, striking out 178 in 163 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n

Rangers leadoff hitter Joc Pederson was retired on a nifty play in the third when shortstop Jeremy Pe\u00f1a made a backhand stop and a twisting throw to first for the out. Justin Foscue and Danny Jansen had deep flyouts in the Texas fifth.<\/p>\n

Okert walked Nimmo leading off the seventh before retiring the next three batters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARLINGTON, Texas \u2014 Houston Astros right-hander Tatsuya Imai and relievers Steven Okert and Alimber Santa combined to throw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[35073,20,9,11,10,95187,319,24627],"class_list":["post-243677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-houston-astros","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-no-hitters","tag-sports","tag-texas-rangers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}