ALL 27 OUTS- Three Astros pitchers combine for the 1ST NO-HITTER of 2026! - - MLB Highlights

Tatsuya Imai making his sixth start for the Astros. Imai making his third start since coming off the I.L. Imai coming off his first start without a walk has walked at least three in his other four starts. Let's just hope that he's able to get a feel for the mound and the delivery to get some of those strikes and get that ground ball. Nick Gallin to Jeremy Pena and Pena delivers a strike to Christian Walker. So delivering ten of the first twelve pitches off the plate. Imai follows it up by getting to a 2-2 Callegan Nimmo and a huge double play. Great feed to Jeremy Pena who gets to show off that arm and get that big double play. He erased one of those walks. Now you're just one hitter away from getting out of this. Up in the center field. Also through the middle. That was a repeat of the last ground ball to Nick Gallin. 2-3 for the second 1-0 effort. Pretty cool to see him take the mound and take it all into him. Yeah, it's good to have a place that he feels comfortable in. Better than the second inning than the first. But it's sharply. What a play by Pena. With some tough hops at 105.4. And he stays with it. And then somehow gets up and throws a dart to first. And on the in-between hop, Christian Walker picks it. This defense has been showing out in the last four or five games now. Got him. That back-up slider that Emigh likes to throw to lefties. And the Astros get through that inning. 1-2-3. Emigh has retired seven in a row. Ground ball to second. Nick Gallin flips to Pena. Taps the bag. Throws to first. There's another double play for Emigh and the Astros. Second one of the night. It's too easy. Only one strikeout so far for Tatsuya. That was Asuna to end the third. This ball popped up. I think this one will be in play. That's a nice inning for Emigh with a double play and a pop-up in the middle. Either way, it's a win-win. Christian Vasquez. Strikeout number two for Emigh. And there's two away in the fifth. Isak Paredes drifts in for third. And he'll put it away. That's now five and two-thirds for Emigh, which also matches a career high in the major league. See the below on that? Nope. 96. Let's go. Alejandro hits it sharply, but down to the ground goes Paredes. Let your defense work. That's what Plummer said the first inning, and that's what Emigh has done first six innings. He's only allowed four base runners all via the walk. At the end of six, it's 4-0 Astros. The Astros haven't allowed a hit yet so far in this ballgame. Tatsuya Emigh went six no-hit innings, and he's out of the ballgame now. It's Steven Okert taking over. Walk number five allowed by Astros. Pitching and a leadoff base runner on in the seventh. Ezekiel Duran will bat. Okert. Swing and a miss. High fastball. He strikes out Duran for the first out of the inning. Here's Jake Berger. The pitch. And he gets a pop-up. Right center field, going back Nick Allen, now called off by Cam Smith as he races in. And the right fielder makes the catch for out number two. Here's Foscue. Foscue. Okert's first pitch to Foscue is popped up. At the rim of the dirt at the shortstop position, there's Jeremy Pena puts it away with two hands. And we've got something brewing in Arlington. For Allen Bersanta, who had his contract selected by the Astros on Friday. And he comes into a game in which the Astros have yet to allow a hit. First hitter he faces is Andrew McCutchen. Been around since 2009. 2-2. Ground ball pulled left side to his left. Third baseman Shoemake up with it. Throws to first. One away. Here's Danny Jansen. The kick and the 1-2. Ground ball softly hit third base side. Stays fair. Picked up by Shoemake and he throws to first in time. Two away in the bottom of the eighth. There you go. Leverage the count. Get weak contact. Here's Michael Hellman. He's 0-2. Working from the first base side of the rubber. Here's a 2-1 to Hellman. And that's hit off the hands. Popped up. Caught by Santa. Just to the right of the pitcher's mound. And three Houston Astros pitchers have combined to keep the Rangers hitless through eight innings. Alan Bersanta making his big league debut. Back out for his second inning of work. Had a 1-2, 3-8. Peterson 0-2 with a walk. 2-2. And that's hit softly. And Matthews out to make the catch in shallow right center. And Peterson's the first out of the bottom of the ninth. And now it's Alejandro Osuna who's 0-2 with a walk. Broken back. Ground ball. Softly hit left side. Coming in Shoemake Field. Guns the first. Just in time to get Osuna. And the Rangers are down to their final out. Still without a hit. And Brandon Nimmo, the final hope for the Texas Rangers. Called bird strike. The Astros' 17th no-hitter. It's a challenge by Brandon Nimmo. For now, it's the seventh no-hitter in the last eight years. And it is confirmed. The Astros with a no-hitter. Alan Bersanta. In his major league debut. Gets the last six outs with two perfect innings. And the celebration begins. How about it? Your introduction to the big leagues is in a pressure situation. Even with a nine-run lead, you've got to imagine he felt a little bit of that. But he came out and dealt. The Astros pitching around walks. Using that defense. And confining for their fifth no-hitter in team history. 17th regular season no-hitter. 18th if you count the World Series no-hitter. Started by Christian Javier. Tatsuya Imai. Steven Oakert. And Alan Bersanta in his major league debut. Spin to win!