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[13] [14] Major League Baseball did not adopt review via instant replay on calls such as this until the 2014 season. As of the 2024 season, this is the last White Sox' AL Championship Series appearance. The Angels returned to the postseason in 2007, 2008, and 2009, but made it to an ALCS once, in 2009.
The 2005 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 2005 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 4, and ended on Monday, October 10, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. They were:
The Kansas City Royals end major league baseball's longest losing streak in 17 years, defeating the Oakland Athletics 2-1 to snap a club-record 19-game skid. The Royals' mark was the longest since the Baltimore Orioles lost an American League-record 21 in a row at the start of the 1988 season.
Additionally it was the first season featuring a baseball team in Washington, D.C. since the second iteration of the Washington Senators last played there in 1971; the Washington Nationals had moved from Montreal, the first relocation of a team in 33 years and currently the most recent time this has occurred in the majors.
Chicago began its eighth trip to the postseason in 2005. [11] The last time they reached the playoffs, during the 2000 season, they were swept by the wild card Seattle Mariners in three games after having the best record in the American League that season. The White Sox' power, or lack thereof in the series, ultimately doomed them.
Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a towering two-run homer on his first playoff swing in four years and Michael King struck out 12 in his first postseason start as the San Diego Padres beat rookie AJ Smith ...
Major League Baseball: Al López, who led two American League teams – the Cleveland Indians in 1954 and the Chicago White Sox in 1959 – to pennants, died of a heart attack at the age of 97. NASCAR 2005 Chase for the NEXTEL Cup : Carl Edwards wins the Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway .
Mookie Betts homered for the second straight night, Shohei Ohtani hit an RBI single and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Dylan Cease and the San Diego Padres 8-0 on Wednesday night to force a deciding ...