October 2005 in Sports - 7 October 2005

7 October 2005

  • Major League Baseball playoffs
    • 2005 American League Division Series, Game 3
      • Chicago White Sox 5, Boston Red Sox 3
        • WP: Orlando Hernández. LP: Tim Wakefield. SV: Bobby Jenks (2). HR: ChW — Paul Konerko; Bos — Manny Ramírez 2, David Ortiz. The Pale Hose overcome two Ramírez home runs to sweep the Red Sox for their first postseason series win since 1917. Chicago's win means Major League Baseball will have a new World Series champion for the fifth year in a row. White Sox win series, 3–0.
      • Los Angeles Angels 11, New York Yankees 7.
        • WP: Scot Shields. LP: Aaron Small. HR: LAA — Garret Anderson, Bengie Molina; NYY — Hideki Matsui, Derek Jeter. Neither Randy Johnson or Paul Byrd could stem early runs from their opposition. However, Bengie Molina, who earlier hit his third home run of the series, left the game with a swelled elbow after getting hit by a pitch. Angels lead series 2–1.
  • Cricket:ICC Super Series:
    • Australia (328 for 4) beat the Rest of the World XI (273 all out) by 55 runs to go two-nil up in the three-match One Day International series in the Telstra Dome, Melbourne

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