The 2022 World Series was the 118th championship series of Major League Baseball, where the Houston Astros defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in six games to claim their second World Series title. The Phillies, who had narrowly clinched a wild-card spot as the final National League seed after a rough start that led to Joe Girardi's firing and Rob Thomson taking over as interim manager, briefly took a 2–1 lead before the Astros dominated the final three games. Rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña earned the World Series Most Valuable Player Award, making him the first rookie position player to win the honor. Game 4 featured a historic combined no-hitter by Astros pitchers Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero, and Ryan Pressly—the first in World Series history since Don Larsen's perfect game in 1956 and only the third in postseason history. This was the first World Series meeting between the two franchises since the Astros moved to the American League, though their first postseason encounter occurred in the 1980 NLCS, and the series was officially titled the "2022 World Series presented by Capital One" under a new multi-year sponsorship agreement.