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The 2004 Major League Baseball postseason was the playoff tournament of Major League Baseball for the 2004 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.
The 2004 Major League Baseball season ended when the Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals in a four-game World Series sweep. The Red Sox championship ended an 86-year-long drought known as the Curse of the Bambino .
Five previous teams had managed to win one game after going down 3–0 in a post-season series. Of these five, two made it to a Game 6. But now the Red Sox, the 26th team in Major League Baseball playoff history to face a 3–0 series deficit, became the first to force a Game Seven.
The 2004 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2004 American League playoffs in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2004 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 5, and ended on Saturday, October 9, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.
2004: MLB NL West 5th 51 111 .315 42 2005: MLB NL West 2nd 77 85 .475 5 2006: MLB NL West 4th 76 86 .469 12 Brandon Webb [8] 2007: MLB NL West ^ 1st 90 72 .556 — Won NLDS 3–0 Lost NLCS 4–0 [7] Bob Melvin [9] 2008: MLB NL West 2nd 82 80 .506 2 2009: MLB NL West 5th 70 92 .432 25 2010: MLB NL West 5th 65 97 .401 27 2011: MLB NL West ^ 1st 94 68
In addition, the wild card guaranteed that the team with the second-best record in each league would qualify for the playoffs, even if they were in the same division with the team having the best record. As the 1994 postseason was canceled due to the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, 1995 was the first postseason with a wild card team.
It hosted the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball from 1971 to 2003 and the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League from 1971 to January 2003. Likewise, the 1976 and 1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Games were held at the venue, and the Vet also hosted the annual Army-Navy football game seventeen times between 1980 and ...
The 2004 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2004 season.The 100th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Boston Red Sox and the National League (NL) champion St. Louis Cardinals; [1] the Red Sox swept the Cardinals in four games.