Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name. Larry Walker advanced to third when the Astros failed to call timeout after the play at the plate. Amazingly, Houston somehow managed to recover from an abysmal start to go 74-43 for the rest of the year (a .632 winning percentage over four months). Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2020. Unbelievably, the Astros played the final fifteen innings of their magical season without plating a single run. Over the last few years, as baseball marched into the 21st Century, both parity and unpredictability became the norm, as many teams who were perennial no-shows in the postseason were now in the hunt for vindication. The Cardinals guaranteed that another game would be played at historic Busch Stadium (II). The Cardinals, by virtue of having the best record in the NL during the 2005 season, had the home-field advantage. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? The 2005 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was held from May 30 through June 26, 2005.Sixty-four NCAA Division I college baseball teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament, to play in the NCAA Tournament. Texas went undefeated in the College World Series, earning its spot in the championship series with a walk-off home run against Big 12 Conference rival Baylor, before sweeping Florida in the championship series. Team LOB–7. October 26, 2005 Box Score. Along the way, Houston and Atlanta set a Major League postseason record with a five hour and fifty minute marathon (sixty seconds longer than a Boston Red Sox versus New York Yankees playoff game from the previous season).

We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. 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; the Red Sox swept the Cardinals in four games. All Rights Reserved by Baseball Almanac, Inc.Hosted by Hosting 4 Less. 2005 NCAA Division I baseball tournaments, "NCAA Men's College World Series Records 1947-2008", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2005_NCAA_Division_I_Baseball_Tournament&oldid=961482816#College_World_Series, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Aces from both teams combined to throw a whopping five-hundred fifty-three pitches, (Astros: three-hundred, Braves: two-hundred fifty-three) as a forty-three year-old Roger Clemens came unexpectedly "out of the bullpen" for his first relief appearance since 1984. The Astros did their own part to help the cause by stranding six base runners, at the worst possible times. Many historical player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Relief men Cliff Politte and Neal Cotts combined to pitch out of a two-on, one-out jam in the eighth inning, by retiring Morgan Ensberg as well as pinch-hitter Jose Vizcaino and shortstop Juan Uribe nailed Vizcaino by one-half step with the tying run on third. The dramatic "movie-script" win put Chicago in a statistically superior position as thirty-eight out of the fifty teams to lead a Series 2-0 went on the win the title. IBB–Lamb (1,by Garcia); Berkman (2,by Politte). The forty-six year gap between appearances was the longest in American League history and offered a rare opportunity for the long-overdue emancipation of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and his infamous "Black Sox" — who were accused of throwing the Fall Classic in 1919. Moments later, Uribe finished the job (and the season) by fielding pinch-hitter Orlando Palmeiro's broken-bat grounder up the middle for the final out.

Roy Oswalt was named the series MVP.

All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC. The win also broke the Cardinals' seven-game losing streak in road NLCS games. The Astros scored a run in the third when the Cardinals' Mark Mulder threw a wild pitch to Craig Biggio with runners on second and third, then Biggio's RBI single scored another.

Much like the regular season though, futurists everywhere were proven wrong as the age defying and indestructible "Rocket" was forced to depart after a mere two innings, with a strained left hamstring. SB–Taveras (1,3rd base off Garcia/Pierzynski); Berkman (1,2nd base off Garcia/Pierzynski). copyright=new Date(); The Astros shook off the effects of their Game 5 loss, and rolled to win their first National League pennant in 44 seasons of existence with a decisive 5–1 win over the Cardinals.

Albert Pujols's leadoff home run off of Oswalt in the sixth put the Cardinals on the board, but they would get nothing more. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. One of the key components in the rebirth of the Chicago White Sox was the passionate, yet humble managing style of skipper Ozzie Guillen. Do you have a sports website? The 2005 National League Championship Series (NLCS), the second round of the 2005 National League playoffs, matched the Central Division champion and defending league champion St. Louis Cardinals against the wild card qualifier Houston Astros, a rematch of the 2004 NLCS. But their last World Championship title had come eighty-eight years earlier when they defeated the New York Giants in 1917. Clemens started Game 1 at the age of 43 years, 2 month, 18 days, becoming the second oldest pitcher to ever start a World Series Game. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. A–42,936.

The home-state Nebraska Cornhuskers won their first College World Series game after going winless in their previous two appearances. The "South Siders" had advanced to the postseason on three other occasions; in 1983 when they lost three of four games to the Baltimore Orioles, in 1993 when the Toronto Blue Jays beat them in six, and in 2000 when the Seattle Mariners dumped them in three.

With the game still tied in the fourth, Joe Crede delivered a one-out home run to left-center field off reliever Wandy Rodriguez. Or write about sports? Game 4, October 16: St. Louis Cardinals: 1: Final: Houston Astros: 2: W: Chad Qualls (1-0) L: Jason Marquis (0-1) S: Brad Lidge (3) Game 5, October 17: St. Louis Cardinals: 5: Final : Houston Astros: 4: W: Jason Isringhausen (1-0) L: Brad Lidge (0-1) Game 6, October 19: Houston Astros: 5: Final: St. Louis Cardinals: 1: W: Roy Oswalt (3-0) L: Mark Mulder (1-2) Series Batting Stats. Houston started off strong, posting a 4-0 lead, but the Sox came back even stronger with five runs of their own in the fifth inning. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. Perhaps the proudest "White Sock" of them all was manager Ozzie Guillen who had played 1,743 games for the White Sox and never won a title. All rights reserved. followed by Adam Everett's RBI triple. Pinch-hitter Carl Everett followed suit with a ground ball to second base that moved Harris to third. St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, who won AL pennants with the Oakland Athletics in 1988–89–90 and the NL flag in 2004, fell short in his bid to become the first manager in history to win multiple pennants in both major leagues, although he did so in 2006 and again in 2011. The remaining 34 spots were awarded to schools as at-large invitees. Are you a Stathead, too? All logos are the trademark & property of their owners and not Sports Reference LLC.