In the bottom of the eighth, Scott Podsednik hit a triple with Pierzynski on second. The 1-0 shutout was the first 1-run game to end a World Series since the 1995 World Series, in which Game 6 was won by the Atlanta Braves over the Cleveland Indians, and the first 1-0 game in any Series game since Game 5 of the 1996 World Series when the New York Yankees shut out the Braves in the last game ever played at Atlanta Fulton County Stadium.
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They stumbled, fumbled and floundered their way to a 15-30 start that prompted the Houston Chronicle to proclaim, with a full-page tombstone on June 1, that their season was all but over. Before the game, Major League Baseball unveiled its Latino Legends Team. Never before had a World Series grand slam and a World Series walk-off home run been hit by the same team in the same game. List of members of the Baseball Hall of Fame (chronological). Both teams were attempting to overcome decades of disappointment, with a combined 132 years between the two teams without a title. A five-game winning streak ended in Baltimore with a three-game sweep to the Orioles, but to some of the younger players on the team at the time, that series is remembered as a turning point as much as some of the prior wins. Backe gave up five hits and struck out seven, including five straight in the fourth and fifth innings. A WHITE SOX WINNER! Matter of fact, some of the best I’ve ever seen. 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. On the mound, Roy Oswalt tallied twenty wins, and Clemens led the rotation with a 1.87 ERA and one-hundred eighty-five strikeouts. Some defensive statistics Copyright © Baseball Info Solutions, 2010-2020. - unknown, for minors. I had tears in my eyes. DID HE CATCH IT?! Willie Harris hit a pinch-hit single. After Mike Lamb's home run tied the game in the second, the Sox scored two more in the second when Juan Uribe doubled in A. J. Pierzynski after Carl Everett had already scored on a groundout earlier in the inning. To really know the fans cared that much about me – it was a great feeling.
1917 | We deserved it. Burke: Purpura did the right thing -- saying, ‘I believe in you guys, we put this team together expecting to win, we can win, we're not going to sell off guys.’ It was absolutely the right move in his seat.
Statistically, Houston had posted a better record while playing at home "indoors" and the question arose as to whether the Commissioner's Office would consider that an advantage.
1936 | We started winning a lot of close games. NLDS1. This is way back in the gap. Perhaps coincidentally, the Astros had started to turn a corner right around the time the tombstone headline came out. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. "Our work isn't done. Roy Oswalt, pitcher: We had three guys that were going to win damn near 60 games. And the White Sox have won the World Series!!!" That could be us.
Burke: I'm in the middle of a horrendous slump, I think I was 1-for-20. Although the ser… 1956 | 1957 |
Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Thursday, October 22, 12:56AM. No. In the postgame conference, the Sox manager joked that he wanted to be clear he was asking for "The Big Boy." One record that was tied was most double plays turned, with six (four by the Astros, two by the White Sox). On a miserably cold (51 degrees) and rainy evening, Morgan Ensberg's first-pitch home run off starter Mark Buehrle put the Astros on top in the second inning. ESPN Radio was the nationwide radio broadcaster, as it had been since 1998. Part of the Baseball Almanac Family. Bagwell: Articles are going to be written -- good, bad, indifferent. 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. Podsednik advanced him with a sacrifice bunt. Pinch-hitter Carl Everett followed suit with a ground ball to second base that moved Harris to third. Jason Lane, outfielder: I remember guys talking about the tombstone article some, but I felt like we weren’t that bad. A strong performance by one of the Astros' big three starters? Neither Houston starter Brandon Backe nor White Sox hurler Freddy Garcia allowed many scoring opportunities during their seven scoreless innings apiece. Tsuyoshi Shinjo, Hideki Matsui, and So Taguchi all lost in the 2002, 2003, and 2004 World Series, respectively. Furthermore, it was the second year in a row in which the Series champions broke a long-lived "curse." Carl Everett pinch-hit for Iguchi and grounded out to the right side to allow Harris to move over to third. WP: José Contreras (1-0) LP: Wandy Rodríguez (0-1) SV: Bobby Jenks (1), HRs: Hou – Mike Lamb (1) ChW – Jermaine Dye (1), Joe Crede (1), October 23: U.S. Cellular Field, Chicago, Illinois. 1930 | Pierzynski after Carl Everett had already scored on a groudout earlier in the inning. But how they got there was anything but routine. Lidge: That was a tough wall for us to run into. Things got a little sticky for the Sox in the Astros half of the eighth when reliever Cliff Politte hit Willy Taveras, threw a wild pitch, sending Taveras to second, and walked Lance Berkman. 1996 | Meanwhile, the Astros themselves made it back to the World Series in 2017, but this time as an AL team, where they defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games, resulting in Houston's first professional sports championship since the 2006–07 Houston Dynamo won their back-to-back MLS Championships. The 2005 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2005 season. The Astros would return to the World Series in 2017 as an AL franchise, where they would win in seven games against the Los Angeles Dodgers, and again to lose in 2019. 1985 |
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).
Total Zone Rating and initial framework for Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith.
I basically said, ‘The Chronicle may think our season's over, but I don't.’ I just wanted to convey to those guys, we're not going to tear this thing apart. Following Game 4, Wheaties announced the release of a special-edition package honoring the 2005 World Series Champion Chicago White Sox. No way are they trying to bury us when we have the team we do.’, Monday marks a memorable 10-year anniversary for the Astros' tombstone http://t.co/981mHnKE7v pic.twitter.com/dtvg3lCp37. In the Division Series, the White Sox swept the defending champion Boston Red Sox. 2018 | The pair ranks first and third on the all-time list of most regular season games played before a first World Series appearance: The 2005 Chicago White Sox were 6-0 on the road in the postseason, the second best road record in a single postseason behind the 1996 New York Yankees, who were 8-0. The 2005 White Sox joined the 1995 Atlanta Braves and 1999 New York Yankees as the only teams to win a World Series after losing no more than one game combined in the Division Series and Championship Series. They said, 'Why are you running off the field? The White Sox were able to break through in the next inning against embattled Houston closer Brad Lidge. Oswalt: We started going back and forth and were laughing.
Copyright © 2000-2020 Sports Reference LLC. Visit Baseball-Reference.com for the complete box score, play-by-play, and win probability Clemens stood at the door of clubhouse after the game, high-fiving each player as they walked in. 1998 | Ensberg: Around that time, when you have a loss like that under those circumstances, you're thinking, 'How much more can I take? In the White Sox half of the fourth, Joe Crede hit what turned out to be the game-winning home run. You had to laugh. The Astros responded again in the next inning when Lance Berkman hit a double, driving in Adam Everett and Craig Biggio. Bagwell: That irritated the hell of me. 1970 | Do you have a sports website? "With the way we started out and how many games below .500 we were, it's certainly an accomplishment," Mike Lamb told the Houston Chronicle postgame. The Astros won the next two in Milwaukee, capturing their first road series win of the season.
The Astros were outscored 51-16 during a six-game losing streak in early May that ended with a Mother's Day rout in Atlanta on May 8. Brad Ausmus, catcher: You always have a chance when you have pitching. The victory gave the White Sox an amazing 10-1 record in the postseason and left them just one more win away from a record that would match the 1999 Yankees' 11-1 run as the second-best playoff ledger in baseball history (first held by the 1976 Reds, who posted a perfect 7-0). His shoulder had been deteriorating for years, and when he pulled himself out of the lineup on May 4, it turned out to be a watershed moment.
Usually a starter, "The Rocket" was forced into a closer's role and allowed one hit in three scoreless innings to earn the win. That might have been a turning point, because Lance brought that sense of, ‘I don't care, I'm going to have fun.’ Here comes Lance, ho ho hum, doing his thing. He said, 'What do you mean?'