October 2005 in Sports - 25 October 2005

25 October 2005

  • Major League Baseball 2005 World Series Game 3
    • Chicago White Sox 7, Houston Astros 5 (14 innings)
      • WP: Dámaso Marte. LP: Ezequiel Astacio. SV: Mark Buehrle. HRs: ChW — Joe Crede, Geoff Blum; Hou — Jason Lane. In the longest Series game played by time (five hours and forty-one minutes) and by the number of innings (a record-tying fourteen), Geoff Blum hit a home run off his former teammates to bring the White Sox one step away from their first World Championship in eighty-eight years. After the Astros had built a 4–0 lead, the White Sox sent 11 men to the plate in a 5-run 5th inning off Roy Oswalt; the Astros tied the game on Jason Lane's double in the 8th, their only hit after the 4th inning. White Sox lead series, 3–0.
  • Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz was named the 2005 winner of the Roberto Clemente Award by Major League Baseball for community service.
  • NFL: Wellington Mara, long time owner of the New York Giants football club, dies from cancer at the age of 89.
  • Football: Swedish club IF Elfsborg announce that they will repay the admission fee and transport costs of fans who went to see their 8–1 thrashing by league champions Djurgårdens IF on the last day of the Allsvenskan season. "We wish that we had been able to say that it depended on external factors, but there are no excuses, no explanations. We were just bad", the club said in a statement. (Reuters)
  • Cricket: India (350 for 6, Tendulkar 93, Dravid 85, Pathan 83) beat the second-placed team in the ICC ODI Championship, Sri Lanka (198 ao in 35.4 overs, Sangakkara 43 – Harbhajan 3–35, Kartik 3–48), by 152 runs at Nagpur in the first ODI in the 7-match series. (Cricinfo)

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