2005 National League Championship Series

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The 2005 National League Championship Series (NLCS) was a best-of-seven playoff in Major League Baseball's 2005 postseason pitting the defending National League champion and overall #1 seeded St. Louis Cardinals and the fourth-seeded Houston Astros for the National League pennant. The Cardinals, by virtue of having the best record in the National League, had the home-field advantage. This was a rematch of the 2004 NLCS. The Astros won the series four games to two and became the National League champions; they advanced to face the American League champion Chicago White Sox in the 2005 World Series, which the White Sox won in a four-game sweep. St. Louis manager Tony La Russa, who won AL pennants with the Oakland Athletics in 1988–89–90 and the NL flag in 2004, fell short in his bid to become the first manager in history to win multiple pennants in both major leagues, although he did so in 2006 and again in 2011. The NLCS also closed with the last game ever played at St. Louis' Busch Stadium...

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