Final score: Astros 5, Phillies 0
The Phillies have fed off their home crowd all postseason. They did it the entire path to the World Series, and they continued it in Game 3. The idea of clinching a title at home felt no longer like a pipe dream, but instead realistic.
No crowd was stopping Cristian Javier in Game 4. No crowd was stopping history.
Javier — as talented as some aces, but a Game 4 starter due to an overload of depth — carved the Phillies up through six hitless innings, and the Astros’ electric bullpen finished off the first World Series no-hitter (individual or combined) since Don Larsen’s perfect game in 1956.