2022 Houston Astros season

The 2022 Houston Astros season was the 61st season for the Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise located in Houston, Texas, their 58th as the Astros, 10th in both the American League (AL) and AL West division, and 23rd at Minute Maid Park. The Astros, who entered the season as both the defending AL and AL West champions, looked to avenge their 2021 World Series loss to the Atlanta Braves.

The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between MLB and the MLB Players Association (MLBPA) expired on December 1, 2021. With no new agreement in place, Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred announced a lockout of players the following day. On March 10, 2022, MLB and MLBPA agreed to a new CBA, thus ending the lockout. Opening Day, originally scheduled for March 31, instead took place on April 7, and a full 162-game season was played.

Behind Framber Valdez' first Opening Day start, the Astros won for the tenth straight year, which set a modern-day major league record for most consecutive Opening Day victories. Manager Dusty Baker reached 2,000 career wins on May 3 with a 4–0 win over the Seattle Mariners, becoming the 12th manager to reach the milestone. Two Astros pitchers, Luis García and Phil Maton, recorded an immaculate inning on June 15, 2022, the first occurrence in major league history of more than one immaculate inning pitched on the same day. On June 25, three Astros pitchers—Cristian Javier, Héctor Neris and Ryan Pressly—combined to no-hit the New York Yankees for the 14th no-hitter in team history. The following day, the hitless streak reached 16+1⁄3 innings via José Urquidy's 6+1⁄3 hitless innings, tying an expansion era record..

The Astros secured a sixth consecutive playoff berth following a 5–0 win against the Oakland Athletics. On September 19, they clinched their fifth AL West title in the last six seasons following a 4–0 win against the Tampa Bay Rays. With a 106–56 regular season record, the win total represented the second-highest total to date in franchise history—trailing only the 2019 club with 107—and the fifth time the Astros reached at least 100. Their AL West title was the 12th division title in franchise history, seventh playoff berth over the previous eight seasons, and 16th playoff appearance overall.

Houston swept Seattle in the American League Division Series (ALDS) to reach the American League Championship Series (ALCS) for a sixth straight season, in doing so becoming the first team in major league history to win a postseason series in six consecutive seasons. They swept the New York Yankees in the ALCS for their fourth AL pennant and fifth pennant overall. The Astros advanced to the World Series and faced the Philadelphia Phillies. In Game 4, Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero, and Pressly all combined for another no-hitter, just the second in World Series history. On November 5, they beat the Phillies 4–1 in Game 6 at Minute Maid Park to win their second championship and first since 2017. The 2022 Astros became just the third team after the 1995 Atlanta Braves and the 2019 Washington Nationals to sweep the LCS since the best-of-seven-game format was introduced and subsequently win the World Series. The momentum for this World Series run resulted largely from a historic bullpen performance which surrendered just five total earned runs, rookie shortstop Jeremy Peña, who claimed both ALCS and World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) honors, and Yordan Alvarez, who connected for go-ahead home runs in three of the Astros’ eleven postseason victories. In his 25th season, Dusty Baker earned his first championship as a manager. The Astros became the first team to have a winning percentage of .622 (or better) in a six-season span (2017–2022) with multiple World Series titles since the 1953–1958 New York Yankees, and they became the sixth team since 1960 to win the World Series after losing it the previous year. Several pundits have posited the 2022 Astros as one of the most dominant teams in MLB history, owing largely to the club's immense pitching success throughout the entire regular season and postseason.