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Baseball\u2019s playoffs\u2013generally the best games of the year\u2013got off to an amazing start as the Phillies\u2019 Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in the history of postseason play. (The first was in 1956.):<\/p>\n

In the last 54 years of baseball history prior to Wednesday night, there had been 952 postseason games played, all of which shared two common traits of omission: None had ever included a no-hit game, and none had ever been graced by Harry Leroy Halladay.<\/p>\n

But on a chilly, drizzly night at Philadelphia\u2019s Citizens Bank Park, first one historic hole was filled, and then the other. At 5:08 p.m., Roy Halladay, the Phillies\u2019 brilliant right-hander, threw the first postseason pitch of his career, and at 7:42 p.m. baseball\u2019s first postseason no-hitter since 1956 was complete.<\/p>\n

Halladay, 33, turned his postseason debut into the most impressive pitching performance in half a century of baseball history \u2013 holding the Cincinnati Reds hitless in a 4-0 Phillies victory in Game 1 of the National League Division Series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Roy Halladay no-hitter lifts Phillies past Reds in Game 1<\/a>.\n

I can\u2019t see anyone in Philadelphia\u2019s league pitching-wise, but anything can happen.\u00a0 I was hoping Cincinnatti (the victim of Halladay\u2019s achievement) and Texas do well.\u00a0 (And the Rangers did defeat the Rays for their first game.)\u00a0 But I predict Philadelphia will win it all again.\u00a0 What is your baseball analysis and prognostication?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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