October 2005 in Sports - 26 October 2005

26 October 2005

• Major League Baseball 2005 World Series Game 4
  • Chicago White Sox 1, Houston Astros 0
    • WP: Freddy García. LP: Brad Lidge. SV: Bobby Jenks. The deciding game of the 2005 World Series was a pitcher's duel, with White Sox starter García allowing four hits and Astors starter Brandon Backe giving up five hits as both pitched seven shutout innings with seven strikeouts apiece, including a stretch where Backe struck out six consecutive batters. The string of scoreless innings was the longest since Game Seven of the 1991 World Series. World Series MVP Jermaine Dye's RBI single in the eighth inning scoring pinch-hitter Willie Harris proved to be the difference. This is the first World Series win for the South Siders since 1917. It was the first 1–0 Series clinching game since Game Six of the 1995 World Series, which saw the Atlanta Braves defeat the Cleveland Indians and the first 1–0 game in any World Series game since Game Five of the 1996 World Series when the New York Yankees beat Atlanta. It is also the third year in a row where the home team (here, the Astros) did not win the deciding game of a World Series. White Sox win series, 4–0.
• Japan Series: The Chiba Lotte Marines, managed by Bobby Valentine, sweep the Hanshin Tigers in four games, winning Game Four by a 3–2 score. The win gives the former Lotte Orions their first Japan Series title in thirty-one years and makes Valentine the first non-Japanese-born manager to win the Japanese baseball championship.
• WNBA: Sheryl Swoopes, in an interview with ESPN The Magazine, says that she is a lesbian.