But it may not suffice. The full context is that only four pitchers have even gotten within four outs of throwing a post-season no-hitter. Halladay and Don Larsen are the obvious ones, since they made it. But Bill Bevens of the 1947 Yankees carried the ugliest no-hitter of all time through two out in the ninth in Game Four of that World Series (ten walks) before Cookie Lavagetto broke it up with a game-winning pinch-hit (if you've heard Red Barber's famous call: "Here comes the tying run... here comes the winning run!). 20 years later it was Jim Lonborg of Boston keeping his alive until two out in the eighth when Julian Javier singled (producing the memorable cartoon of a kid scrawling graffiti in Boston reading "Hulian Havier is a Herk").
There is one other fact that adds further to the jaw-dropping nature of what Halladay did in his first post-season appearance. Several pitchers have thrown two no-hitters in a season (Johnny Vander Meer, Nolan Ryan, Virgil Trucks, Allie Reynolds come to mind) and others have authored both no-hitters and perfect games in their careers (Koufax, Cy Young, Addie Joss), but Halladay is now the first to produce a no-hitter and a perfect game in the same year.
It's not quite at the same plateau as Vander Meer's consecutive no-hitters, but it's pretty close.
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