Japanese pitcher Imai, two relievers combine for Astros no-hitter
Tatsuya Imai, a Japanese pitcher for the Houston Astros, achieved a no-hitter along with two relievers in a game against the Texas Rangers. This marks the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season and the 18th in Astros history. Imai, in just his sixth MLB game, contributed six hitless innings to secure the victory.
- ▪Tatsuya Imai struck out two batters and walked four in six hitless innings.
- ▪The Astros won the game 9-0, completing the first no-hitter of the MLB season.
- ▪This was the fifth combined no-hitter in Astros' history.
6 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 2 hours. Coverage spans 2 points on the political spectrum — 3 centre, 2 right.
- ▪ Three Houston Astros pitchers throw combined no-hitter in shutout victory over Texas Rangers — Fox News
- ▪ Astros throw no-hitter vs. Rangers: Three pitchers combine for MLB's first no-no since 2024 — CBS Sports
- ▪ Imai combines with relievers for MLB’s first no-hitter since 2024 — Japan Times
- ▪ Astros' Imai, 2 relievers combine to no-hit Ranger... — ESPN — Top
- ▪ Three Astros pitchers combine for first MLB no-hitter since 2024 — New York Post
Yahoo Sports files mainly under sports. We currently carry 16,505 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Yahoo Sports |
| Canonical URL | https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/japanese-pitcher-imai-two-relievers-041205818.html |
| Publication time | Tue, 26 May 2026 04:12:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T04:37:43.007Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T04:37:43.007Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | zO3_uraiSbgr · 12 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/japanese-pitcher-imai-two-relievers-041205818.html","headline":"Japanese pitcher Imai, two relievers combine for Astros no-hitter","datePublished":"2026-05-26T04:12:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-26T04:12:05.000Z","keywords":["Houston Astros","Tatsuya Imai","Major League Baseball","Texas Rangers","Japan","Saitama Seibu Lions","Japanese pitcher","Ron Jenkins","Alimber Santa","Toronto Blue Jays","Steven Okert","Nate Pearson","Porter Hodge","Chicago Cubs","Ronel Blanco","Philadelphia","Pittsburgh"],"description":"Tatsuya Imai, in only his sixth Major League Baseball game since arriving from Japan, joined two relief pitchers to throw a no-hitter in Houston's…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Yahoo Sports.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Yahoo Sports
