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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.
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]
As of 2024, the White Sox in the 2005 ALCS are the only team to throw four complete games in a playoff series since the beginning of league championship series play in 1969. Prior to that, several teams had done so when the World Series was the only round of the MLB postseason. [1]
American League has home field advantage during World Series as a result of American League victory in 2005 All-Star Game. National League is seeded 1-3/2-4 as a result of NL regular season champion (St. Louis Cardinals) and NL wild card (Houston Astros) coming from the same division. Postseason MVPs World Series MVP – Jermaine Dye
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.
2011: St. Louis Cardinals (90-72), World Series champion. St. Louis went on to win the whole thing as a 90-win team that had to scratch and claw just to make the playoffs — helped by a notorious ...
The time before that, after their 1993 AL West Division title, the White Sox won two games against the eventual World Series Champion Toronto Blue Jays. Expectations were pretty high for the 2005 playoffs, especially if they could erase that 88-year World Series drought.
Manny Machado and Yu Darvish are two ex-Dodgers who have the first shot of beating L.A. in the playoffs when the Padres open the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium. These 10 ex ...