2005 American League Championship Series

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The 2005 American League Championship Series (ALCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2005 postseason pitting the top-seeded Chicago White Sox against the second-seeded Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim for the American League pennant. The Series began October 11 and ended on October 16. The White Sox had home-field advantage by virtue of having a better regular season record. The White Sox won the series four games to one to become the American League champions, and faced the Houston Astros in the 2005 World Series, in which the White Sox swept the Astros in four games to win their first World Series championship in 88 years. The series was notable both for a controversial call in Game 2 of the series, and the outstanding pitching and durability of Chicago's starting rotation, pitching four consecutive complete games; the +2⁄3 of an inning Neal Cotts pitched in the first game was the only work the White Sox bullpen saw the entire series. This was the first ALCS since...

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