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The 2005 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2005 season.The 101st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Chicago White Sox and the National League (NL) champion Houston Astros. [1]
This is the White Sox' first trip to the World Series since 1959. October 19 – In Game Six of the NLCS, the Houston Astros earn their first World Series berth in 44 years of team history with a 5–1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. For the Cardinals, the loss marks the end of the season for the team that led the majors with 100 wins.
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
Chicago's opponent in the 2005 World Series was the National League Champion Houston Astros, who defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series to clinch a trip to their first World Series in franchise history.
The 2005 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2005 season.The winners of the League Division Series would move on to the League Championship Series to determine the pennant winners that face each other in the World Series.
Prior to 2020, the only World Series game with less than 10 million viewers had been Game 3 in 2008, [11] which was impacted by a rain delay and had 9.836 million viewers. [ 12 ] The most recent World Series game to record a rating of 30 or higher was Game 7 in 1991 , as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves ; the game had a ...
The season ended when the Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros in a four-game sweep in the World Series, winning their first championship since 1917. As of the 2024 season, this is the last season in which no no-hit games were pitched; 2005 was also only the 6th year since 1949 in which no such games were thrown.
The White Sox won the series four games to one to become the American League champions, and faced the Houston Astros in the 2005 World Series, in which the White Sox swept the Astros in four games to win their first World Series championship in 88 years; as a result of the 2005 All-Star Game played in Detroit, Michigan at Comerica Park on July ...