Home field advantage was awarded to Chicago by virtue of the AL's 7–5 victory over the NL in the 2005 MLB All-Star Game. The series was played between October 22–26, 2005. The White Sox swept the Astros in four games, winning their third World Series championship and their first in 88 years. The 101st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League (AL) champion Chicago White Sox and the National League (NL) champion Houston Astros. The 2005 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2005 season. Joe West (crew chief), Jeff Nelson, Jerry Layne, Derryl Cousins, Gary Cederstrom, Ángel HernándezĬhicago White Sox over Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (4–1) We have to come through with those big hits with runners on base.101st edition of Major League Baseball's championship series “We had a couple situations with runners on and couldn’t come through. “I feel like we’re getting a lot of guys on, just missing that one big hit,” Ohtani said. In the fourth and seventh the Angels had two straight hits to start the inning, but both times double plays killed the potential rallies. The Angels had runners at first and second with one out in the third, but Ohtani and Trout struck out. Meanwhile, the Angels could do nothing against Valdez, on a night that began ominously, with right fielder Kyle Tucker leaping to rob Mike Trout of a homer in the first inning. “I had some hits that found holes,” Ohtani said. Alvarez then reached on an infield single, and Alex Bregman dropped a bloop hit into left, driving in Peña. In between the homers, the Astros scratched across a run with a two-out rally against Ohtani in the fifth inning. Ohtani gave up a second homer on a 3-and-1 cutter to Corey Julks, who hammered it 411 feet in the sixth inning. “For the most part I’m satisfied with the shape and how it’s moving, but I missed some spots here and there,” Ohtani said through his interpreter. Hitters are 18 for 113 (.159) with 49 strikeouts against his sweeper. Ohtani has gotten 229 swings at his sweeper this season, and he’s allowed 18 hits. “If you actually dive into the numbers, the swings on the sweepers and the hits that he’s given up, it’s astounding, in a good way,” Nevin said. That was the sixth homer of the season that Ohtani has allowed on a sweeper, equaling the total that he gave up all of last season with that pitch.Īlthough the homers have put a spotlight on the pitch, Nevin said the overall results are still good. There were some pitch-selection things that I’m sure that we’ll need to talk about.” “Alvarez is a guy that you’ve seen when he sees a pitch like that in the zone already, he usually doesn’t miss ’em the second time,” Nevin said. Nevin said the pitch selection in that case was risky, because Ohtani had already thrown Alvarez a sweeper earlier in the at-bat. Ohtani hung a 2-and-2 sweeper to Yordan Alvarez in the first inning, and Alvarez drilled it over the fence in left-center for a homer. Neto underwent X-rays, which were negative, but he will be off on Saturday. The Angels also lost shortstop Zach Neto, who was removed from the game with left foot soreness a few innings after he was hit by a pitch. Three double plays that ended some rallies, that hurt us a little bit. “First off, Valdez is very good,” Manager Phil Nevin said, “but we got to him, got some runners out there and had some chances. They hit into two double plays while Valdez was on the mound and a third after he was out. They had leadoff hits in the third, fourth and seventh innings and came up empty. That was compounded by the fact that the home runs each followed infield hits when the Angels were unable to make plays in the field.Īt the plate, the Angels didn’t score in seven innings against Valdez, finally managing a couple of runs after he was out in the eighth. Shohei Ohtani made a few mistakes in his six innings on the mound, and two of them left the ballpark. HOUSTON - The Angels needed everything to go right – their pitching, defense and hitting – to beat Houston Astros ace Framber Valdez.īut enough went wrong with each that the Angels lost to the Astros, 6-2, on Friday night.
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