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2005 American League Division Series
The 2005 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the 2005 American League Major League Baseball postseason, postseason, began on Tuesday, October 4, and ended on Monday, October 10, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a Major_League_Baseball_wild_card#One_wild_card_per_league_(1994–2011), "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series. They were: *(1) 2005 Chicago White Sox season, Chicago White Sox (Central Division champion, 99–63) vs. (4) 2005 Boston Red Sox season, Boston Red Sox (Wild Card, 95–67): White Sox win series, 3–0. *(2) 2005 Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim season, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (Western Division champion, 95–67) vs. (3) 2005 New York Yankees season, New York Yankees (Eastern Division champion, 95–67): Angels win series, 3–2. The higher seed (#1 is the highest) had the home field advantage. 2005 was the first year since 2001 American League Division Series, 2001 that the Minnesota T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Chicago White Sox Season
The 2005 Chicago White Sox season was the White Sox's 105th season. They finished with a 99–63 record in the regular season and first place in the American League Central division by six games over the Cleveland Indians. In the playoffs, they won the American League Division Series 3–0 over the defending World Series champion Boston Red Sox, the American League Championship Series 4–1 over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the World Series 4–0 over the Houston Astros, ending an 88-year championship drought. Offseason * December 9, 2004: Jermaine Dye was signed as a free agent by the White Sox. * December 9, 2004: Dustin Hermanson was signed as a free agent by the White Sox. * December 13, 2004: Carlos Lee was traded by the White Sox to the Milwaukee Brewers for Scott Podsednik, Luis Vizcaíno and a player to be named later. The Brewers completed the deal by sending Travis Hinton (minors) to the White Sox on January 10, 2005. * December 17, 2004: Bobby Jenks was claime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Everitt (baseball)
Mike G. Everitt (born August 22, 1964) is a retired Major League Baseball umpire, who wore number 57. He worked in the American League from 1996 to 1999 and throughout both major leagues from 2000 to 2019. Early life Everitt attended Aztec High School in Aztec, New Mexico. He played several sports at the school and graduated in 1982. He appeared in that year's Connie Mack World Series. Career Over his major league career, Everitt has worked the All-Star Game one time 2006, the Wild Card Game three times (2013, 2016, 2019), the Division Series nine times (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017), the League Championship Series 6.5 times (2002, 2003, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and the second half of the 2019 series starting in Game 4 after Jeff Nelson was removed after injury in Game 3), and the 2006 All-Star Game. Everitt has also umpired the World Series three times (, and ). Everitt was named a crew chief in February 2017. Everitt was the first base umpire on July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thom Brennaman
Thomas Wade Brennaman (born September 12, 1963) is an American television sportscaster. He is the son of former Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster Marty Brennaman. Broadcasting career After graduating in 1982 from Cincinnati's Anderson High School, Brennaman attended Ohio University, where he was president of the Beta Kappa chapter of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He entered college uncertain of whether to follow in his father's footsteps and become a broadcaster. While at Ohio, he joined station WATH, developing his own love for radio. After graduating in 1986, Brennaman worked as a sports reporter/anchor for WLWT-TV, the NBC affiliate in Cincinnati. During this same period, he worked as the television play-by-play announcer for the Cincinnati Reds alongside Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench. In the early 1990s, he did Chicago Cubs broadcasts for WGN-TV and its national superstation feed, alternating with Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray between television and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Miller (sportscaster)
Gary Miller (born }) is an American sportscaster and radio host, best known for his tenure at ESPN from 1990 to 2004. Early life and education Miller is a native of Naperville, Illinois and a graduate of Southern Illinois University. Career WSAV-TV, CNN and Headline News From 1978–82, he was the Sports Director at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia. Before Miller came to ESPN, he spent eight years at CNN and Headline News as part of their sports coverage. ESPN From 1990 to 2004, Miller worked at ESPN. He was an anchor at ''SportsCenter'', the host of ESPN's ''Baseball Tonight'', and the last host of the sports interview show ''Up Close'' before it was canceled in 2001. Miller also occasionally did play-by-play of Major League Baseball games, and was the primary dugout reporter on '' Monday Night'' baseball broadcasts, as well as ''ESPN Daygame''. Other play-by-play assignments during this period included games of the College World Series and the Little League World Series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Morgan
Joe Leonard Morgan (September 19, 1943 – October 11, 2020) was an American professional baseball second baseman who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Colt .45s / Astros, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, and Oakland Athletics from 1963 to 1984. He won two World Series championships with the Reds in 1975 and 1976 and was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in each of those years. Considered one of the greatest second basemen of all time, Morgan was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990. After retiring as an active player, Morgan became a baseball broadcaster for the Reds, Giants, ABC, and ESPN, as well as a stint in the mid-to-late 1990s on NBC's postseason telecasts, teamed with Bob Costas and Bob Uecker. He hosted a weekly nationally syndicated radio show on Sports USA, while serving as a special advisor to the Reds. Playing career Morgan was African American and the oldest of six chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Miller
Jon Miller (born October 11, 1951) is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. Since 1997 he has been employed as a play-by-play announcer for the San Francisco Giants. He was also a baseball announcer for ESPN from 1990 to 2010. Miller received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010. Early life Jon Miller was born on Hamilton Air Force Base in Novato, California and grew up in Hayward, listening to Giants announcers Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons on the radio. He attended his first baseball game in 1962, a 19–8 Giants' victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Candlestick Park. As a teenager, Miller played Strat-O-Matic and recorded his own play-by-play into a tape recorder, adding his own crowd noise, vendors, and commercials. Career Early broadcasting work After graduating from Hayward High School in 1969, Miller took broadcasting classes at the College of San Mateo. He began his broadcasting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Myers
Chris Myers (born ) is an American sportscaster. He has covered the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NBA Finals, the NCAA Final Four, The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Triple Crown, the Olympics, and the Daytona 500. Early life and career Chris Myers broke into broadcasting as a 16-year-old high school student when he hosted his own show on Miami’s WKAT radio. He graduated from Chaminade High School, followed by Miami Dade Community College and Florida International University. In the 1980s, Myers hosted a sports radio call-in show on WIOD-AM in Miami before moving to New Orleans to work for broadcast station WWL. ESPN (1988–1998) Myers spent ten years (1988-1998) at ESPN, hosting ''SportsCenter'', ''Baseball Tonight'', and other shows. He received an Emmy for the interview program '' Up Close'', on which he was the first to conduct live interviews with O. J. Simpson after both his murder trial and wrongful death civil lawsuit. Myers reported during the 1989 San Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim McCarver
James Timothy McCarver (born October 16, 1941) is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher from to , most prominently as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals where, he was a two-time All-Star player and a member of two World Series winning teams. Later in his career while playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, McCarver became known as the regular catcher for Hall of Fame pitcher, Steve Carlton. One of the few major league players to have appeared in four different decades, he finished second in voting for the National League (NL) Most Valuable Player Award. McCarver also played for the Montreal Expos and the Boston Red Sox. After his playing career, he became a three-time Emmy Award winning television color commentator, most notably for Fox Sports. McCarver called a then-record 23 World Series and 20 All-Star Games. In 2012, McCarver was named the recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Buck
Joseph Francis Buck (born April 25, 1969) is an American sportscaster. The son of sportscaster Jack Buck, he worked for Fox Sports from its 1994 inception through 2022, including roles as lead play-by-play announcer for the network's National Football League and Major League Baseball coverage. He served as the play-by-play announcer for the World Series from 1996 to 2021, with the exceptions of 1997 and 1999, when Bob Costas called those particular World Series for NBC. In 2022, Buck moved to ESPN, where he serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for ''Monday Night Football''. Early life and education Buck was born in St. Petersburg, Florida (where the St. Louis Cardinals, for whom his father broadcast, then conducted their spring training) and raised in the St. Louis area, where he attended St. Louis Country Day School. He began his broadcasting career in 1989 while he was an undergraduate at Indiana University Bloomington. Career Before Fox Buck called play-by-play f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Baseball On Fox
''MLB on Fox'' (also known as ''Fox MLB'') is an American presentation of Major League Baseball (MLB) games produced by Fox Sports, the sports division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (Fox), since June 1, 1996. The broadcaster has aired the World Series in 1996, 1998, and every edition since 2000, and the All-Star Game in 1997, 1999, and every year since 2001. It has also aired the National League Championship Series (NLCS) and American League Championship Series (ALCS) in alternate years from 1996 to 2000 and since 2007, with the NLCS in even years and the ALCS in odd years, with the network aired both series from 2001 to 2006. In November 2018, Fox Sports signed a television rights extension with MLB, allowing it to continue to carry MLB telecasts through the 2028 season with national broadcasts on Fox. In 2022, Fox Sports renewed its television rights for regular season games for both the main Fox broadcast network or FS1. For the first time since 2013, Fox will air at least t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Torre
Joseph Paul Torre (; born July 18, 1940) is an American professional baseball executive, serving as a special assistant to the Commissioner of Baseball since 2020. He previously served in the capacity of Major League Baseball's (MLB) chief baseball officer from 2011 to 2020. A former player, manager and television color commentator, Torre ranks fifth all-time in MLB history with 2,326 wins as a manager. With 2,342 hits during his playing career, Torre is the only major leaguer to achieve both 2,000 hits as a player and 2,000 wins as a manager. From 1996 to 2007, he was the manager of the New York Yankees and guided the team to six pennants and four World Series championships. Torre's lengthy and distinguished career in MLB began as a player in 1960 with the Milwaukee Braves, as a catcher, first baseman and third baseman. He also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets until becoming a manager in 1977, when he briefly served as the Mets' player-manager. His manage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 New York Yankees Season
The 2005 New York Yankees season was the 103rd season for the franchise. The team finished with a record of 95–67, tied with the Boston Red Sox but won the division due to winning the season series 10–9 over Boston. New York was managed by Joe Torre. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. In the playoffs, they lost in the ALDS in 5 games to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. It was their eleventh year making the playoffs in a row. Offseason * December 3, 2004: Kenny Lofton was traded by the New York Yankees to the Philadelphia Phillies for Félix Rodríguez. *December 3, 2004: Félix Heredia was traded by the New York Yankees to the New York Mets for Mike Stanton. * December 20, 2004: Carl Pavano signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees. * December 28, 2004: Jaret Wright signed as a free agent with the New York Yankees. *January 11, 2005: Javier Vázquez, Brad Halsey, Dioner Navarro, and cash were traded by New York Yankees to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Randy Joh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
