October 2004 in Sports - October 5, 2004

October 5, 2004

• Baseball: The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8–3 in the first game of a best-of-five National League Division Series, while the Boston Red Sox defeat the Anaheim Angels 9–3, and the Minnesota Twins defeat the New York Yankees 2–0, in the opening game of their respective American League Division Series. The Twins break a post-season record with 5 double plays and the Cardinals break an NLDS record with 5 home runs.
• Football: The draw for the group stage of the 2005 UEFA Cup takes place at UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. (UEFA.com) Results:
  • Group A: Basel, Ferencváros, Feyenoord, Hearts, Schalke
  • Group B: Athletic Bilbao, Beşiktaş, Parma, Standard Liège, Steaua Bucharest
  • Group C: Austria Vienna, Club Brugge, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, Utrecht, Real Zaragoza
  • Group D: Dinamo Tbilisi, Newcastle United, Panionios, Sochaux, Sporting Lisbon
  • Group E: Egaleo, Lazio, Middlesbrough, Partizan Belgrade, Villarreal
  • Group F: Amica Wronki, Auxerre, AZ Alkmaar, Grazer AK, Rangers
  • Group G: Benfica, Beveren, Dinamo Zagreb, Heerenveen, VfB Stuttgart
  • Group H: AEK Athens, Alemannia, Lille, Sevilla, Zenit St. Petersburg
• Basketball:
  • NBA: Scottie Pippen, who starred alongside Michael Jordan for all of the Chicago Bulls' six NBA championships in the 1990s, announces his retirement. (ESPN)
  • WNBA: Sue Bird recovers from a collapse the day before, and the Seattle Storm defeat the Sacramento Monarchs, 82–62, to win their series, 2 to 1 and advance to the WNBA Finals, against the Connecticut Sun. (WNBA)
• NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt Jr. is fined US$10,000 and penalized 25 championship points for cursing during a television interview after his Sunday win at Talladega Superspeedway. The points penalty knocks him out of the lead in the race for the series championship. (ESPN)