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Chicago White Sox 4, Houston Astros 0 · 2005-10-22 to 2005-10-26 · 4 games · attendance 168,422 · season overview

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Champion · 3rd title

Chicago White Sox
Manager Ozzie Guillen

Runner-up

Houston Astros
Manager Phil Garner

Series MVP

Jermaine Dye

Ballparks

Guaranteed Rate Field
Minute Maid Park

Note

A sweep

Games

#	Date	Away at Home	Series	Park	Attendance	Win	Loss	Save
1	2005-10-22	Houston Astros 3 at Chicago White Sox 5	1–0	Guaranteed Rate Field	41,206	Jose Contreras	Wandy Rodriguez	Bobby Jenks
2	2005-10-23	Houston Astros 6 at Chicago White Sox 7	2–0	Guaranteed Rate Field	41,432	Neal Cotts	Brad Lidge
3	2005-10-25	Chicago White Sox 7 at Houston Astros 5	3–0	Minute Maid Park	42,848	Damaso Marte	Ezequiel Astacio	Mark Buehrle
4	2005-10-26	Chicago White Sox 1 at Houston Astros 0	4–0	Minute Maid Park	42,936	Freddy Garcia	Brad Lidge	Bobby Jenks

The players

Chicago White Sox

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Scott Podsednik	4	21	2	6	0	2	1	2	0	4	2	.286
Tadahito Iguchi	4	18	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	.167
Joe Crede	4	17	2	5	1	0	2	3	1	2	0	.294
Aaron Rowand	4	17	2	5	1	0	0	0	2	6	0	.294
Jermaine Dye	4	16	3	7	1	0	1	3	2	2	0	.438
Paul Konerko	4	16	1	4	1	0	1	4	2	3	0	.250
Juan Uribe	4	16	2	4	3	0	0	2	3	3	1	.250
A. J. Pierzynski	4	15	3	4	2	0	0	3	2	2	1	.267
Carl Everett	4	9	1	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.444
Jon Garland	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000
Freddy Garcia	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Geoff Blum	1	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.000
Willie Harris	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Timo Perez	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Chris Widger	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Mark Buehrle	2	1	0–0	1	7.1	7	4	4	0	6	1	4.91
Jon Garland	1	1	0–0	0	7.0	7	4	2	2	4	1	2.57
Freddy Garcia	1	1	1–0	0	7.0	4	0	0	3	7	0	0.00
Jose Contreras	1	1	1–0	0	7.0	6	3	3	0	2	1	3.86
Bobby Jenks	4	0	0–0	2	5.0	3	2	2	2	7	0	3.60
Cliff Politte	3	0	0–0	0	2.1	0	1	1	2	2	0	3.86
Damaso Marte	1	0	1–0	0	1.2	0	0	0	2	3	0	0.00
Neal Cotts	3	0	1–0	0	1.1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0.00
Luis Vizcaino	1	0	0–0	0	1.0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0.00
Orlando Hernandez	1	0	0–0	0	1.0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0.00
Dustin Hermanson	1	0	0–0	0	0.1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.00

Houston Astros

Batting	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG
Craig Biggio	4	18	3	4	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	.222
Jason Lane	4	18	1	4	1	0	1	2	1	5	1	.222
Morgan Ensberg	4	18	2	2	0	0	1	2	1	7	0	.111
Brad Ausmus	4	16	1	4	1	0	0	0	1	3	0	.250
Willy Taveras	4	15	2	5	2	1	0	0	0	3	1	.333
Adam Everett	4	15	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	.067
Lance Berkman	4	13	0	5	2	0	0	6	5	5	1	.385
Mike Lamb	4	10	1	2	1	0	1	1	2	3	0	.200
Jeff Bagwell	4	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.125
Chris Burke	3	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	.000
Jose Vizcaino	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.500
Brandon Backe	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000
Orlando Palmeiro	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000
Roy Oswalt	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000

Pitching	G	GS	W–L	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Brandon Backe	1	1	0–0	7.0	5	0	0	0	7	0	0.00
Andy Pettitte	1	1	0–0	6.0	8	2	2	0	4	0	3.00
Roy Oswalt	1	1	0–0	6.0	8	5	5	5	3	1	7.50
Chad Qualls	3	0	0–0	5.1	3	1	1	2	5	1	1.69
Wandy Rodriguez	2	0	0–1	3.2	4	1	1	5	2	1	2.45
Brad Lidge	3	0	0–2	3.2	4	2	2	0	6	1	4.91
Dan Wheeler	2	0	0–0	2.0	2	3	3	1	1	0	13.50
Russ Springer	2	0	0–0	2.0	2	1	1	0	1	0	4.50
Roger Clemens	1	1	0–0	2.0	4	3	3	0	1	1	13.50
Mike Gallo	2	0	0–0	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Ezequiel Astacio	1	0	0–1	0.2	4	2	2	2	0	1	27.00

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