2005 ALDS
| 2005 American League Division Series | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 4 – 7 | ||||||||||||
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ESPN (Games 1–2) ESPN2 (Game 3) |
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| TV announcers | Chris Berman, Rick Sutcliffe, Mike Piazza | ||||||||||||
| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Jon Sciambi, Buck Martinez | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | John Hirschbeck, Bill Miller, Mark Wegner, Mark Carlson (Game 1), Dale Scott (Games 2-3), Mike Everitt, Dan Iassogna | ||||||||||||
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| Dates | October 4 – 10 | ||||||||||||
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Fox (Games 1, 4–5) ESPN (Games 2–3) |
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| TV announcers |
Joe Buck, Tim McCarver (Games 1, 5) Jon Miller, Joe Morgan (Games 2–3) Thom Brennaman, Tim McCarver (Game 4) |
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| Radio | ESPN | ||||||||||||
| Radio announcers | Dan Shulman, Dave Campbell | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Gary Darling, Jerry Meals, Derryl Cousins, Alfonso Márquez, Joe West, Jim Reynolds | ||||||||||||
| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Chicago White Sox (3) | Ozzie Guillén | 99–63, .611, GA: 6 | |
| Boston Red Sox (0) | Terry Francona | 95–67, .586, GA: 0 |
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| Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (3) | Mike Scioscia | 95–67, .586, GA: 7 | |
| New York Yankees (2) | Joe Torre | 95–67, .586, GA: 0 |
The 2005 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2005 American League playoffs, 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 higher seed (#1 is the highest) had the home field advantage.
NOTE: The Yankees were designated the Eastern Division champions due to winning the season series 10–9 against the Red Sox. The Angels received home field advantage rather than the Yankees due to their winning the season series 6–4 against New York.
2005 was the first year since 2001 that the Minnesota Twins had not participated in the ALDS. Other than the White Sox' victory in the AL Central, the participants were identical to those of the previous year.
The two victorious teams went on to meet in the AL Championship Series (ALCS). The victorious White Sox advanced to defeat the National League champion Houston Astros and win the 2005 World Series.
Chicago won the series, 3–0.
Los Angeles won the series, 3–2.
†: Game was postponed due to rain on October 8
U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois
Little did the Red Sox know when starter Matt Clement hit Scott Podsednik, the first batter he faced, that the rout was on. But the young pitcher never regained his control and finished by allowing seven runs on eight hits, three of which were homers, in only 3 1⁄3 innings. The White Sox also scored in the third, fourth, sixth, and eighth innings. The Red Sox were held to two runs by José Contreras, who went 7 2⁄3 innings, giving up just two earned runs on eight hits. Four White Sox players hit home runs, including Podsednik, who had gone homerless in the regular season. It was his first home run since September 30, 2004.
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