This article is about the 2005 Major League Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 2005 in baseball.
Sports season
2005 MLB season
League
Major League Baseball
Sport
Baseball
Duration
April 3 – October 26, 2005
Number of games
162
Number of teams
30
TV partner(s)
Fox, ESPN
Draft
Top draft pick
Justin Upton
Picked by
Arizona Diamondbacks
Regular Season
Season MVP
AL: Alex Rodriguez (NYY) NL: Albert Pujols (STL)
Postseason
AL champions
Chicago White Sox
AL runners-up
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
NL champions
Houston Astros
NL runners-up
St. Louis Cardinals
World Series
Champions
Chicago White Sox
Runners-up
Houston Astros
World Series MVP
Jermaine Dye (CWS)
MLB seasons
← 2004
2006 →
The 2005 Major League Baseball season was notable for the league's new steroid policy in the wake of the BALCO scandal, which enforced harsher penalties than ever before for steroid use in Major League Baseball. Several players, including veteran Rafael Palmeiro, were suspended under the new policy. Besides steroids it was also notable that every team in the NL East finished the season with at least 81 wins (at least half of the 162 games played). Additionally it was the first season featuring a baseball team in Washington, D.C. since the second iteration of the Washington Senators last played there in 1971; the Washington Nationals had moved from Montreal, the first relocation of a team in 34 years and currently the last time this has occurred in the majors.
The Anaheim Angels changed their name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The season ended when the Chicago White Sox defeated the Houston Astros in a four-game sweep in the World Series, winning their first championship since 1917.
As of the 2023 season, this is the last season in which no no-hit games were pitched; 2005 was also only the 6th year since 1949 in which no such games were thrown.[a]
This was the first season since 1993 that all teams played at least 162 games with no cancellations.
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