Houston led‚ 4-0‚ before Chicago scored 5 runs in the 5th inning off Roy Oswalt to take the lead. Joe Crede also homers for the Sox‚ while Jason Lane connects for the Astros. Dámaso Marte gets the win in relief.
At 5 hours, 41 minutes‚ the contest is the longest in Series history in terms of time, up to that point. It also ties the mark for longest game in terms of innings played. The White Sox complete the sweep the following night, to win their 1st World Championship in 88 years. The Astros, now in their 44th season, have taken this long just to get into their 1st World Series. They will have to wait a bit longer for their 1st title.
Blum, a utility infielder, had been acquired by the White Sox from the San Diego Padres at the trade deadline. This would be his only season for them, as he signed with the Padres again for 2006. In 2008, he signed with the Astros, playing 3 seasons with them, without helping them reach the postseason. He retired after the 2012 season, and has been a broadcaster for the Astros ever since.
Also on this day, Wellington Mara dies of lymphoma at age 88. He had been involved with the New York Giants since their founding in 1925 by his father, Tim Mara, who made his son the bellboy. The NFL's TV-revenue-sharing plan was his idea, bringing the irony of the biggest market in the League, New York, saving the smallest market, Green Bay.
Well Mara was buried in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, Westchester County, New York, the same cemetery as Babe Ruth. His son John Mara now runs the Giants, another son Chris is the Giants' chief scout, and Chris' daughters Kate Mara and Rooney Mara are actresses. Chris' wife and Kate's mother is Katherine Rooney, daughter of Pittsburgh Steelers owner Dan Rooney and granddaughter of Steelers founder Art Rooney, which makes Kate and Rooney the great-granddaughters of the founders of 2 of the NFL's greatest franchises.
At the Giants' 1st home game after her grandfather's death – the first one the franchise ever played without Wellington Mara being on hand, after 80 years – Kate sang the National Anthem.
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October 25, 2005 was a Tuesday. This was the only baseball game played that day. Football was in midweek. The NBA season started 7 days later. There were 8 NHL games played:
* The New York Islanders beat the Atlanta Thrashers, 4-3 at the Nassau Coliseum.
* The Montreal Canadiens beat the Philadelphia Flyers, 3-2 at the Bell Centre in Montreal. Mike Ribeiro scored the winning goal with 2:32 left in overtime.
* The Nashville Predators beat the Chicago Blackhawks, 5-3 at the Gaylord Entertainment Center (now the Bridgestone Arena) in Nashville.
* The Florida Panthers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins, 4-3 at the Mellon Arena (as the Civic Arena was known at the time) in Pittsburgh. Stephen Weiss scored the winning goal, 53 seconds into overtime.
* The Vancouver Canucks beat the Minnesota Wild, 3-1 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
* The Colorado Avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers, 5-3 at the Pepsi Center (now the Ball Arena) in Denver.
* The Phoenix Coyotes beat the St. Louis Blues, 5-4 at the Glendale Arena (now named the Desert Diamond Arena) in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, Arizona. Petr Nedvěd scored his 2nd goal of the game with 3:09 left in overtime to win it.
* And in a cross-metro-area matchup, the Los Angeles Kings beat the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-1 at the Staples Center (now the Crypto.com Arena) in Los Angeles.
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