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| Dates | October 22–26 | |||||||||
| Venue(s) | U.S. Cellular Field (Chicago) Minute Maid Park (Houston) | |||||||||
| MVP | Jermaine Dye (Chicago) | |||||||||
| Umpires | Joe West (crew chief), Jeff Nelson, Jerry Layne, Derryl Cousins, Gary Cederstrom, Ángel Hernández | |||||||||
| Hall of Famers | White Sox: Harold Baines (Bench Coach) Tim Raines (1B Coach) Frank Thomas (DNP) Astros: Jeff Bagwell Craig Biggio | |||||||||
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| Television | Fox (United States) MLB International (International) | |||||||||
| TV announcers | Joe Buck and Tim McCarver (Fox) Dave O'Brien (MLB International) | |||||||||
| Radio | ESPN WMVP (CHW) KTRH (HOU) | |||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Miller and Joe Morgan (ESPN) John Rooney and Ed Farmer (WMVP) Milo Hamilton and Alan Ashby (KTRH) | |||||||||
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| ALCS | Chicago White Sox over Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (4–1) | |||||||||
| NLCS | Houston Astros over St. Louis Cardinals (4–2) | |||||||||
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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] The White Sox swept the Astros in four games, winning their third World Series championship and their first in 88 years. The series was played between October 22–26, 2005.
Home field advantage was awarded to Chicago by virtue of the AL's 7–5 victory over the NL in the 2005 MLB All-Star Game. The Astros were attempting to become the fourth consecutive wild card team to win the Series, following the Anaheim Angels (2002), Florida Marlins (2003) and Boston Red Sox (2004). Both teams were attempting to overcome decades of disappointment, with a combined 132 years between the two teams without a title. The Astros were making their first Series appearance in 44 years of play, while the White Sox had waited exactly twice as long for a title, having last won the Series in 1917, and had not been in the Series since 1959, three years before the Astros' inaugural season. As of 2024, this is the most recent postseason series won by the White Sox.
- ^ "2005 World Series". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved January 6, 2014.