2005 in baseball

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The following are the events of the year 2005 that happened world-wide throughout the sport of baseball.

This year in baseball

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Sources

Contents

Champions

Major League Baseball

Other champions

Major League Baseball final standings

American League final standings

American League
Rank Club Wins Losses Win % GB
EAST
1st New York Yankees 95   67 .586    --
2nd Boston Red Sox * 95   67 .586    --
3rd Toronto Blue Jays 80   82 .494 15.0
4th Baltimore Orioles 74   88 .457 21.0
5th Tampa Bay Devil Rays 67   95 .414 28.0
CENTRAL
1st Chicago White Sox 99   63 .611    --
2nd Cleveland Indians 93   69 .574   6.0
3rd Minnesota Twins 83   79 .512 16.0
4th Detroit Tigers 68   94 .420 28.0
5th Kansas City Royals 56 106 .346 43.0
WEST
1st Los Angeles Angels 95   67 .586    --
2nd Oakland Athletics 88   74 .543   7.0
3rd Texas Rangers 79   83 .488 16.0
4th Seattle Mariners 69   93 .426 26.0

National League final standings

National League
Rank Club Wins Losses Win % GB
EAST
1st Atlanta Braves   90 72 .556    --
2nd Philadelphia Phillies   88 74 .543   2.0
3rd Florida Marlins   83 79 .512   7.0
3rd New York Mets   83 79 .512   7.0
4th Washington Nationals   81 81 .500   9.0
CENTRAL
1st St. Louis Cardinals 100 62 .617    --
2nd Houston Astros *   89 73 .549 11.0
3rd Milwaukee Brewers   81 81 .500 19.0
4th Chicago Cubs   79 83 .488 21.0
5th Cincinnati Reds   73 89 .451 27.0
6th Pittsburgh Pirates   67 95 .414 33.0
WEST
1st San Diego Padres   82 80 .506    --
2nd Arizona Diamondbacks   77 85 .475   5.0
3rd San Francisco Giants   75 87 .463   7.0
4th Los Angeles Dodgers   71 91 .438 11.0
5th Colorado Rockies   67 95 .414 15.0

 

* The asterisk denotes the club that won the Wild card for its respective league.

Events

January-March

  • January 18 - The New York Mets signed Carlos Beltrán to play center field for the next seven years. The team will be paying him for the next 14. Beltran's deal contains $22 million in deferred salary that will be paid out in the seven years after the contract expires. He will be 41 by the time he receives all the money, which will be paid each July 1 starting in 2012 in yearly installments of $3,142,857 plus interest that will accrue at the rate of 1.7175 percent annually.
  • February 6 - At Mazatlan, Mexico, Francisco Campos turned in another brilliant outing and Mexican champion Águilas de Mazatlán (Mazatlan Eagles) held on in the final game, edging the Dominican Republic 4-3 to win the 56th Caribbean World Series. The title is just Mexico’s fifth since joining the competition in 1970, the second in the last four years, but its first since hosting the series. Campos allowed just three hits --two infield hits and a bunt single-- and a run over his first eight innings of work, striking out 11. Previously, Campos handcuffed the Venezuelan champion Tigres de Aragua (Aragua Tigers) 4-0 in the series opener. He allowed just three hits over eight innings and struck out 10. Campos was voted the Series MVP.
  • February 8 - Magglio Ordóñez, the last remaining premier free agent of the offseason, and the Detroit Tigers agreed to a $75 million, five-year contract, a deal with two option years that could raise the total to $105 million over seven seasons. The Tigers structured a contract for Ordóñez that gives the team some protection if he is hampered by injuries. He gets a $6 million signing bonus and a $6 million salary this year. His contract calls for a $15 million salary in 2006, $12 million in 2007, $15 million in 2008 and $18 million in 2009. Detroit has a $15 million option for 2010 with a $3 million buyout, and a $15 million option for 2011 with no buyout. In addition, Ordóñez's salary in each of the option years would become guaranteed if he has 135 starts or 540 plate appearances in the previous season, or 270 starts or 1,080 plate appearances in the previous two seasons. If his 2010 salary becomes guaranteed under this provision, it would be at $18 million. The 2011 salary would be $15 million.
  • February 16 - Baseball union signed an agreement calling for international drug-testing rules during a 16-team World Cup tournament in the 2006 spring training. Each team will select a provisional roster of 60 players 45 days before the start of the tournament, and players will be covered by the drug-testing rules until the end of the competition. The deal, signed by the union, the commissioner’s office and the International Baseball Federation, states that IBAF rules will cover the frequency of testing before and during the tournament, the list of prohibited substances, the procedures for taking samples and the laboratories used. More substances are banned by the IBAF than in major league baseball.

April

  • April 6 - Brad Wilkerson of the Washington Nationals hit for the cycle in the Nationals' first win since moving to Washington D.C., 7-3 against the Philadelphia Phillies. He became the twentieth player to hit for the cycle twice. One day after, Wilkerson continued his torrid hitting going 4-for-5, as the Nationals completed its first series by winning two of three against the Phillies.
  • April 14 - On a historic night at RFK Stadium, Liván Hernández and Vinny Castilla were up to the task. Hernández carried a one-hitter into the ninth inning and Castilla fell a single shy of the cycle as the Washington Nationals posted a 5-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first major league game in Washington D.C. in more than 33 years. After beginning their first season in the nation's capital with a nine-game road trip, the Nationals opened the first game at RFK Stadium since the departure of the Washington Senators with former pitcher Joe Grzenda handing a ball to president George W. Bush, who threw the ceremonial first pitch. Grzenda tossed the final pitch in Senators history against the New York Yankees on September 30, 1971.
  • April 15 - Sammy Sosa hit his first home run at Camden Yards, giving him homers in 42 different ballparks. Currently seventh on the all-time list with 576 home runs, Sosa and Miguel Tejada had three RBI apiece as the Orioles defeated the Yankees 10-1.

May

June

    • The New York Yankees were swept by the worst team in baseball, falling 5-2 to the Kansas City Royals for their first five-game losing streak in more than two years. It's been a ball so far for Buddy Bell, the new Royals skipper who is unbeaten after sweeping three games from the visiting Yankees. Kansas City pitchers allowed just six runs in the series. It's the third time in their storied history the Yankees had been swept in three games by the team with the worst record in the majors. The other times were in 2000 by the Detroit Tigers and 1937 by the Philadelphia Athletics and in both those seasons, New York won the American League pennant. Kansas City completed its first three-game sweep at home of the Yankees in 15 years. The Royals had gone 78 series without sweeping anyone, the longest drought in the majors since the Phillies went 79 series without a sweep from 1996-97. Despite their three-game sweep, the Royals' record of 16-37 is still the worst in the majors.
  • June 6 - Colorado Rockies rookie sensation Clint Barmes is expected to miss at least three months after breaking his left collarbone in a fall while carrying groceries up the stairs in his apartment building. Barmes, a shortstop leading National League rookies in most offensive categories, went surgery Tuesday 7. He hit around .400 and led the major leagues in batting average for about the first six weeks of the season. After a mild slump, he was still leading NL rookies in hitting (.329), runs (40), hits (74), doubles (16), home runs (8) and RBI (34) heading into Monday's game.He was definite rookie-of-the-year material, but now those hopes are gone due to what he called "the craziest thing that's happened to me, by far."
  • June 7 - Justin Upton, a slugging high school shortstop from Virginia, was taken by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the No. 1 pick in the 2005 baseball draft Tuesday.Upton and his brother B.J., the second pick in 2002 by Tampa Bay, are the highest-drafted siblings. The younger Upton was generally considered the best all-around athlete in this year's draft. A 17-year-old, Upton was mainly a shortstop, but also played third base and the outfield. The Virginia player of the year batted .519 with 11 home runs and 32 RBI in just 54 plate appearances. "I think it's a combination of his athletic ability — throwing, fielding, hitting — in terms of what he does on the field and what would seem to be a real maturity," Joe Garagiola said. "That's really unusual in a player that age."
  • June 8:
    • Marlins starter Dontrelle Willis became the major leagues' first 10-game winner in Florida's 5-4 win over Seattle. Carlos Delgado homered and provided all runs Marlins need.
    • Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez became the youngest member of the 400-home run club when he hit a solo shot in the eighth inning of New York's 12-3 win over host Milwaukee. The home run was the second of the game for the 29-year-old, who became the 40th player in major league history to reach 400 homers; two more than Dale Murphy, one of his boyhood heroes, and one more than Al Kaline and Andrés Galarraga.
    • Minnesota ace Johan Santana improved to 15-0 over his last 17 road starts, when he pitched a 8-0 four-hitter, nine-strikeout, shutout against Arizona.
  • June 10:
    • Future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux made the Boston Red Sox's first appearance at Wrigley Field a sour one. Maddux allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings and homered for the first time in six years as the Chicago Cubs captured their 11th win in their last 14 games with a 14-6 victory over the Red Sox. Facing the Cubs for the first time since the 1918 World Series. Boston did not play at Wrigley Field before because of the decision that year to host the postseason games in Chicago at Comiskey Park because of its greater seating capacity.
    • The 1919 contract that shipped Babe Ruth from Boston to New York sold at auction for a staggering $996,000, delighting its new owner, Pete Siegel, a die-hard Yankees fan, and a hunger-relief group designated to receive a financial windfall from the sale. The price was nearly double the presale estimate for the December 26, 1919, contract, signed by owners Harry Frazee of the Red Sox and Jacob Ruppert of Yankees, and nearly 10 times the $100,000 cost of purchasing Ruth.
  • June 12 - Acquired in a trade two days before, Junior Spivey hit a two-run home run as the Washington Nationals tied a franchise record with their 10th consecutive win - a 3-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners. Before relocating to the nation's capital this season, the Nationals were known as the Montreal Expos, who won 10 straight games three previous times in 1979, 1980 and 1997. The Nationals have won 13 of their last 14 games overall, with eight of the wins coming by one run, and completed a 12-1 homestand. Tony Armas, Jr. pitched five scoreless innings, allowing five hits, and is 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA in his last three starts.
  • June 27:
    • Julio Franco hit his eighth career grand slam, as the Atlanta Braves past the Florida Marlins. The 46-year-old Atlanta first baseman has shown in June that he clearly can still play the game. In his last seven appearances, Franco is hitting .458 with four home runs and 11 RBI, and is making plenty of entries on those oldest-to-do-whatever lists. Earlier this month, he became the oldest player in major league history to have a two-homer game, the oldest in the last 96 years to steal a base and, on Monday, extended his own mark for being the oldest to hit a grand slam.
    • Baltimore's Rafael Palmeiro got two more hits in a 6-4 loss to the New York Yankees, moving him past Sam Rice into sole possession of 26th place on the all-time list. Palmeiro is 11 hits shy of becoming the fourth player in major league history with 3,000 hits and 500 homers.

July

  • July 11 - At Comerica Park –a field normally considered a "pitcher's park"–, Bobby Abreu won the Home Run Derby. He set records with 24 home runs in a single round and 41 overall, topping Miguel Tejada's previous marks of 15 and 27, set a year earlier. Abreu's longest homer was measured at 517'.
  • July 24 - At SF, A.J. Burnett homered and pitched into the eighth inning for his second straight victory, and Miguel Cabrera belted a home run for the third game in a row to lead the Florida Marlins past the San Francisco Giants 4-1. With 70-year-old Felipe Alou and the 74-year-old Jack McKeon in the dugouts, it marked the first time in North American professional sports history that opposing teams both had managers or coaches 70 or older.
  • July 25:
    • The Oakland Athletics defeated the Cleveland Indians, 13-4, as Dan Johnson of Oakland was the designated hitter and batted ninth, and so did Indians DH Jason Dubois— the first time in major league history both teams' DH were in the last spot in the batting order.
    • At home, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays beat Curt Schilling and the Boston Red Sox, 4-3, on Aubrey Huff’s two-out double in the 10th inning. The Red Sox set a major league record to start a season by not playing extra-innings until their 99th game.

August